The Translation of the Great Isaiah
Scroll

The Essenes in Qumran who copied this scroll approximately 100
BCE are not to be considered the protectors of an accurate text
identical
with the Tanach which would have been revered by the Rabbis.
They were actually far from
the main stream and it is clear that the Q text of Isaiah is a
"dialect" of Hebrew. It is not a
translation, but is characterized by modifications in spelling
and personal pronouns to match
the then current Aramaic dialect that the Essenes would have
spoken. It was much like
changing "ye," "thee" and "thou" to "you" and "thine" to "yours"
would be to us. Thus the
preservation of an identical letter for letter received text was
not at all a part of their motivation in their use of
the scriptures. The Qumran texts that I have translated (1QaIsa)
and (1QpHab) are dialects of
Hebrew and not the Hebrew of the Tanach. Preservation of the
original Hebrew letter for
letter text was the role played by the Rabbis of the "main
stream" in Jerusalem and Babylon (Sura, Nahardea and Pumbidita)
and
they had a special class, an office called Scribes, who carefully
copied manuscripts then kept the new and destroyed the old. The
Essenes were not and did not claim to be copyists of the same
genre.

With this fact in mind, (that the Qumran scribes used their own
discretion to alter the text to fit their own dialect), then the
correspondence between the text of the Great Isaiah Scroll and
the Masoretic text of Isaiah is all the more remarkable.

In the following translation I am only changing word order
within some lines but not between lines; for instance the Hebrew
word order in line 6 of page 44 is "ground dry" and I am changing
it to "dry ground." In English, adjectives usually precede nouns
and in Hebrew they follow after the noun they modify. If one is
able to make sense out of the word order even though it is clumsy
in English I am leaving it as it is in a word for word order
where possible. I am making as nearly as possible a word for word
translation and using the person and number of verbs and number
and gender of nouns and pronouns that are in the Q text. If the
person number or gender of nouns, pronouns or verbs differs from
the M text in this translation you can be fairly certain that the
Q text contains that reading. There are idioms that are difficult to translate word for word. For instance "he has healed us" on page 44
in verse 5 in line 11 is a possible rendering of the text. Most translators have chosen "with his stripes we are (or were) healed" The word for word Hebrew is idiomatic and hard to translate word for word. It is "in the wounds of him we are healed to us." (Heb. "u-va-chavuratiyv nirp'a lanu)

Words that are implied but not in the actual text I have
placed in italics. I am certain that the rendering below is
accurate but as it is possible for humans to make mistakes I
would appreciate it if you find one to point it out to me.

Relative to the time of a verb: as to it
being past or present time: Hebrew verbs are not time defined.
Only the context can determine the time (past, present, or
future) Thus in the translation it is legitimate for you to
change the tense of the verb to suit what you believe to be the
case. For instance line 8 of page 44 it would be just as
accurate to write "he is despised and we do not esteem him.
Surely our griefs he bore" as would be "he was despised and we
did not esteem him. Surely he is bearing our griefs."

I have not corrected idioms but left them word for word: for
instance in line 15 of page 44 at the end of verse 8 I have left
the literal words "a wound was to him" instead of smoothing it
out to "he had a wound" or "he was wounded."

Paragraphs which are part of the Q text are shown by adding
(PP) to the end of the paragraph and leaving a blank line between
the numbered lines.

In the translation of the Great Isaiah Scroll which follows:
The Column numbers and the line numbers
correspond to the pages and the corresponding lines in the
scroll. All the corresponding
words are found on the same numbered line in the scroll without
exception. The
numerals in parentheses mark the verses. Chapter divisions are
marked within the text or if a space is left for the chapter
division in the scroll this is noted. The presence or non
presence
of articles and conjunctions will be followed as consistently as
possible. If a conjunction is called for in English but does not
appear in the Hebrew text it will remain left out or be in
italics. Since therefore, as much as is possible, this is a word
for word
translation, the attempt is made to also use corresponding
parts of speech. And since, a word for word translation is being
used so that
the lines have the corresponding words on them, this will
necessarily make for a more "clumsy" translation. The
translation therefore will not be smooth, but it will be accurate
and the beginning Hebrew student should be able to easily find
the place in the text of the word, or words, he may be interested
in..

Paragraphs marked in the Q text will have a blank line between
them in the translation even though that is not the case in the Q
text.

Symbols in the translated text:

(1) Verses are marked with parentheses.
(PP). Paragraphs are marked with (PP).
[+text+] These Brackets [ ]are placed around added words in Q not
found in the M text.
{} These Brackets {} mark words found in M that differ from
Q.
[m..text] and [m+text+] words found in M that do not appear in
Q. (Not all are marked)
Added words by the translator to smooth the translation are in
italics.
[{ }] Words assumed to be in a lacuna are marked [{ }] thus.
[....] This symbol [....] marks an omission found in the M text
that is not in the Q scroll text.
{&text&} This symbol {&...&} indicates text written above the
line
[...text...] Text dotted by the scribe or editor to show it was
written mistakenly
(text) some words have been crossed out or scribbled over
by the original scribe to correct his own mistake.
[s-text-s] marks a different spelling.
[*] indicates a scribal mark in the margin

Column I Isaiah Chapter 1:1-26

1. (1) The vision of Isaiah, {&yod&} son of Amots
which he envisioned about Judah and Jerusalem {&yod&} in the days
{&waw&} of Uzziah,
2. Yotham, Achaz, {&Ye&}hizkiah kings of Judah (2) Hear O
heavens and give ear O earth
3. because YHWH declares: I have raised and matured sons
and they have transgressed against me. (3) The ox knows his
purchaser
4. and the ass the feeding trough of his owner. Israel does
not know and my people do not consider. (4) Woe sinning nation!
5. a people burdened with faults, a seed of evil ones,
perverted sons, they have abandoned YHWH, they have spurned
6. the Holy One of Israel, they are estranged backward. (5)
Why are you yet being struck, you add rebellion, the whole head
is sick
7. every heart is faint. (6) From the sole of the foot even
to the head, there is no soundness in it but wounds and
bruises and new sores
8. they are not closed up nor bandaged, nor softened with
oil. (7) Your land is desolate, your cities burned
9. with fire, your land, strangers devour it in your
presence, and his desolation is upon her, as the overthrowing of
strangers.
10. (8) and the daughter of Zion is left behind as a shed in
a vineyard, and like a hut in a cucumber field, like a Nazarene city. (9) Unless YHWH
11. of Hosts had caused a very small remnant of us to remain
we would be like Sodom, we would resemble Gomorrah.. (PP)
12. (10) Hear the word of YHWH princes of Sodom and give ear
to the Torah of our God people of Gomorrah. (11) What are they to
me,
13. your multiplied sacrifices, says YHWH, I am sated with
holocausts of rams and the fat of fatlings, and in the
blood
14. of bulls and lambs and goats I have no delight. (12)
When you come to see my face to make this request
15. from your hands treading my courtyard. (13) Do not
continue to bring empty gifts, Incense is an abomination
16. to me, new moon and sabbaths, calling of reading
meetings, I am not able to endure even the sacred assembly. (14)
Your new moons and seasonal feasts
17. my soul hates, they are a burden to me, I am tired of
bearing them. (15) And when you spread your hands I will
hide my eyes
18. from you, also when you multiply prayer I will not
listen, your hands are full of blood. [+and your fingers+] [Aramaic]
19. [+of iniquity+] (16) Wash and make yourselves clean and
turn away the evil of your habitual practices from before my
eyes, stop doing evil. (17) Learn
20. to do well, pursue judgement, bless the oppressed, judge
the orphan, contend for the widow. (PP)

21. Please come and let us reason together says YHWH, if your
sins are like scarlet they shall be white as snow
22. if they be as red as crimson they shall be as wool.
(19) If you are obedient and you give heed then of the
good of the Land [{you shall eat.}]
23. (20) But if you refuse and you rebel you will be
devoured by the sword because the mouth of YHWH has said
it.24. (21) How is the faithful city become like a harlot, it
was full of justice, righteousness lodged [{in her and now}]
25. murderers. (22) Your silver is like dross and your
liquor is diluted with water. (23) Your princes [{are rebels}]
26. and friends of thieves, all of them love a bribe, and
are pursuing graft, the fatherless you do [{not judge and
contending for the}]
27. widow does not come to them. (24) Therefore says the
lord, YHWH of hosts [{the Mighty One of Israel}]
28. It will be I will be comforted about my foes and I will
be avenged on my enemies. (25) And my hand will be turned upon
you and I [{will purge with lye}]
29. your dross and I will remove all of your tin. (26) And
I will restore your judges as at the first and [{your advisors }]

Column II Isaiah 1:26 to 2:21

1. (1:26 cont.) as at the beginning. Afterward you
shall be called the Righteous City, the Faithful City. (27)
Zion with judgement
2. shall be redeemed and her repenters with justice. (28)
And the transgressors and sinners shall be broken together and
those who abandon
3. YHWH shall be terminated. (29) Because you shall be
ashamed of the oak idols which you have longed for and you will
be confused by the gardens
4. which you have chosen. (30) because you shall become
like a fading oak leaf on it and like a garden which has no
water.
5. (31) And the strong [+your+] shall be like lint and the
fashioner [+your+] of it like a spark and both of them shall burn
together
6. and no one shall extinguish them. (PP)

7. (Chapter 2:1) The word which Isaiah the son of Amots
envisioned about Judah and Jerusalem. (2) And it shall be
8. in the last days that the mountain of the house of YHWH
shall be established in the top of the mountains and shall be
lifted up
9. above the hills and all nations shall flow into it. (3)
And many people shall come and shall say
10. Come, let us go up [.....] to the house of the God of
Jacob and He will instruct us in his ways and we will walk in his
paths,
11. because the Torah shall go out from Zion, the word of
YHWH from Jerusalem (4) and He will judge among the nations
12. and he will cause rebuke [+among+] many peoples and
they shall beat [+eth+] their swords to plows and their spears to
13. scythes, and nation shall not lift up sword against
nation, and they will not learn war anymore.
14 (5) O come house of Jacob and we will walk in the light
of YHWH (6) Because you have abandoned your people, the house of
Jacob
15. because they are filled with eastern ways and
conjure like the Philistines and they applaud the children of
strangers.
16. (7) Their land is full of silver and gold and there is
no end to their wealth, also their land is full of horses
17. and there is no end to their chariots. (8) And their
land is full of idols, the work of their hands, they worship that
which
18. their own fingers have made (9) and humanity bows down
and man.is abased [...Q omits the last 3 words of vs 9 and all
of vs 10...] (11) The haughty eyes of man
19. shall [+be made to+] fall down and the highness of men
shall be abased and YHWH only shall be exalted in that day
[*] 20. (12) Because the day of YHWH of Hosts shall be on
all the proud and mighty and exalted and they shall be brought
down (13) And on all the cedars
21. of Lebanon, the mighty and the exalted and on all the
oaks of Bashan. (14) and on all the mountains of
22. [{ mighti}]ness and on all the exalted hills. (15) and
upon every strong tower and upon
23. [{every walled f}]ortress (16) and on all the ships of
Tarshish and on every desirable craft. (17) And shall be
brought low
24. [{the haughtiness of}] man and the highness of men shall
be brought down and YHWH only shall be exalted in that day.
25. (18) [{And the ido}]ls shall be completely abolished.
(19) and they shall go into rock caves and into caverns of
dust from the presence of
26. [{the fear of YH]}WH and from His glorious majesty when
He arises to terrify the earth.(PP)

27. (20) [{In that day}] shall humanity cast away the idols
of silver and the idols of gold which
28. [{they made for themselves}] [with their fingers] to
worship to the moles and to the bats. (21) to go into the
crevices
29. [{of the rocks and into the high}] parts of the crags
from the presence of the fear of YHWH and from the glory of his
majesty.

Column III Isaiah 2:21 to 3:24

1. (2:21 cont.) when he arises to terrify the earth.
(22) Stop depending on humanity whose life
2. is in his nostrils because of what account is he? (PP)

3. (chapter 3:1) Because behold the Lord YHWH is
taking away from Jerusalem and from Judah
4. the stay and the staff, the complete stay of bread and the
complete stay of water (2) the mighty man and the man
5. of war, the judge, the prophet, the sophist, and the
elder, (3) the captain of 50, the exhorter,
6. the wise craftsman, and enchanting speaker. (4) And I
will give youths for their leaders [+..+]
7. and capricious children shall rule over them. (5) And the
people shall be oppressed by each other and each man by his
neighbor.
8. And the youth shall act arrogantly against the elder, and
the lowly against the honorable, (6) Then a man will grasp his
brother
9. of the house of his father, and say you have
clothes, you shall be our ruler and this overthrow
10. shall be under your hand. (7) [+And+] he will raise up
in that day and say I will not be governor
11. for in my house there is no bread and there are no
clothes, do not make me a ruler of the people. (8) because
overthrown
12. is Jerusalem and Judah is fallen. Because their tongue
and their habits are against YHWH to embitter
13. the eyes of his glory. (9) The appearance of their
faces witness against them and they tell their sins like Sodom.
14. They do not conceal it. Woe to their souls because they
have repaid evil to themselves. (10) Say to the righteous
15. that it will be well because they will eat of the fruit
of their habits. (11) Woe to the evil wicked because
16. he returns to himself the recompense of his own hands.
(12) Foolish children are the oppressors of my people and women
rule over them , O my people
17. your leaders lead you astray and [{they swallow
up}] the ways of your paths. (PP)

18. (13) YHWH stands up to contend , He stands to judge the
people. (14) YHWH goes into judgement with
19. the elders of his people and his princes for you have
consumed the vineyard and the loot of the poor is in {&your&}
houses.
20. (15) What is it to you that you beat my people and you
crush the faces of the poor says the {&Lord&} YHWH
21. of Hosts. (PP)

22. (16) And YHWH said: Because the daughters of Zion are
haughty, walking with outstretched
23. necks and wanton eyes, walking delicately as they walk
and with their feet they
24. rattle bangles. (17) And the [..Lord..] {&YHWH&}will strike with a
scab the scalp of the daughters of Zion and the Lord their secret
parts
25. will lay bare. (18) In that day [..YHWH..] {&adonay&}
will turn aside the beauty of their bangles and tiaras {&mem&}
26. and the woven hair pieces and the turbans (19) [and] the
pendants and the bracelets and the veils.
27. (20) [and] the bonnets and the anklets and [..the..]
sashes and the perfumes and the charms.
28. [+and+] the rings and the nose jewels, (22) [+and+] the
stately robes and the coats [m...mitpachoth...] and the purses
29. (23) and the mirrors and the linen shifts and the
diadems and the mantillas. (24) and it shall be.

Column IV Isaiah 3:24 to 5:14

1. (Chapter 3:24 cont.) a stink there instead of spice
and instead of a girdle a rope and instead of well set hair
2. baldness and instead of a sash a girding of sack cloth,
because [...burning...] instead of beauty there is shame
(25) Your males shall fall by the sword
3. and your mighty men {&oth&} in war. (26) And her
portals shall lament and mourn and being cut off she shall sit on
the ground. (PP)

4. (Chapter 4:1) And seven women shall seize
one man in that day saying we will eat our own bread and
our own garments
5. we will wear, only let your name be called upon us to take
away our reproach. (2) In that day shall the branch of YHWH
6. be as beauty and as glory and the fruit of the earth as
majesty and pride for the escaped of Israel. [and Judah].
7. (3) And it shall be that the remnant in Zion and those
remaining in Jerusalem shall be called holy; all the ones written
8. among the living in Jerusalem. ( 4) When the Lord has
washed the excrement of the daughters of Zion and the blood of
9. Jerusalem he has cleansed from her midst by the spirit of
judgement and the spirit of burning. (5) And YHWH will create
upon
10. every establishment of Mount Zion and upon her
congregations a daily cloud [....omission of 14 words in vss 5
and 6...] from the heat for a refuge
11. from storm and from rain. (PP)

12. (Chapter 5:1) Now let me sing a song to my beloved
of his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard in a fruitful hill,
(literally "in a horn of oil.")
13. (2) And he fenced it and cast out the stones and he
planted choice grapes and he built a tower in the midst of it
and also laid out a winepress
14. in it. and he hoped it would make grapes and it made
worthless grapes. (3) And now you dwellers in Jerusalem
15. and men of Judah judge you between me and my vineyard.
(4) What more is to be done for my vineyard that I have
not
16. done to it. Why when I hoped to produce grapes
did there come up wild grapes? (5) And now let me tell
17. you what I am going to do to my vineyard. I will remove
its fence and it shall be for burning and dividing up its wall
18. and it shall be for treading down. (6) And I will
appoint it a waste and it shall not be trimmed nor cultivated and
briers and thorns shall come up
19. and to the clouds I will command them from raining rain
upon it.(7) Because the vineyard of YHWH of Hosts is the house
of Israel
20. and the men of Judah are his delightful plant. When He
hoped for judgement He beheld spilling of blood and for
righteousness He beheld
21. a cry. (PP).

22 (8) Woe to those joining house to house and field to
field. They accumulate them until there is no place and they
[+exalt+] themselves
23. in the midst of the land. (9) YHWH of Hosts
said in my ears, Surely many houses shall be desolate
24. Great and fine shall be without inhabitant. (10)
Because ten acres of vineyard shall produce one bath 9
gallons25. [{and the seed of an homer will m]}ake an ephah (PP)

26. (11) [{Woe to those rising early in]} the morning that
they may pursue strong drink, lingering till the spirit of wine
lights them up. (12) And there are
27. [{the harp and the viol and the tambourine and w]}ine are
in their feasts but the labors of YHWH they do not consider nor
the works
28. [{of His hands do they see. (13) Therefore they are
taken captive}] my people, because of lack of knowledge and the
glory of their males is starvation and their masses
29. [{are dried up with thirst. (14) Therefore}] Sheol has
widened her soul and gaped her mouth without limit and they go
down

Column V Isaiah 5:14 to 6:7

1. (Continue 5:14) and her splendor and their masses
and her pomp and the
o[{ne rejoici}]ng go down into it.(15) And humanity
shall be brought down and mankind shall be humbled and the eyes
of
2. the high ones shall be humbled. (16) But YHWH of Hosts
shall be exalted in judgement and the Holy God shall be
sanctified
3. in righteousness. (17) And the lambs shall feed as usual
while sojourners shall eat the waste places of the fatlings.(PP)

4. (18) Woe to {&the&} ones dragging evil with ropes of
vanity and sin with a cart rope. (19) Those saying, let him
speed
5. and hasten his work {&yod&} so that we may see and let
the advice of the Holy One of Israel draw near and come
6. and we will know it. (20) Woe to those who call
evil good {&and&} good evil, putting darkness for light
7. and light for darkness, putting bitter for sweet and
sweet for bitter. (21) Woe to those who are wise in their own
eyes {&ayin&}
8. and understanding before their own faces (22) Woe to
those who are mighty to drink wine and men of might to mix
9. strong drink. (23) Those who justify the wicked for the
sake of a bribe while they take away the justice of the righteous
from him. (24) Therefore
10. as a flame eats the stubble and the flaming fire
consumes the chaff, their root shall be as rottenness and their
fruit
11. shall become dust because they have rejected the Torah
of YHWH of Hosts and the word of the Holy One
12. of Israel they have despised. (25) Therefore the anger
of YHWH burns against His people and He has stretched out His
hand on them and he has struck them
13. and the mountains trembled and their carcasses were as
torn in the midst of the highways. For all this
14. His anger is not turned away but His hand is still
outstretched. (26) And he will lift up an ensign to the nations
and He will whistle
15. to them from the end of the earth and behold they will
come with speed swiftly. (27) None shall be tired and none shall
stumble, and neither
16. shall they slumber nor sleep neither shall their
waistband of their loins be loosened nor the thong of their
shoes be broken. (28) Whose
17. arrows are sharp and all their bows are bent and the
hooves of their horses are esteemed as flint
18. and their wheels like a whirlwind. (29) Their roaring
is like a lion, they roar like a young lions and they shall growl
and seize {&aleph&}
19. [there are dots above the line here but the do not seem
necessary] the prey and flee but none shall deliver it. (30)
And they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea and
if one looks
20. to the earth and he will behold darkness and sorrow and
the light will be dark in the mists of it. (PP)

21. (Chapter 6:1) In the year of the death of King
Uzziah I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, high and lifted up
22. and His train filled the Temple. (2) Seraphim stood
above Him. They had six wings
23. each, with two they covered their faces, and with two
they covered their feet, and with two they flew.
24. (3) And they called to each other, Holy Holy is YHWH of
Hosts, The whole earth is full of His Glory.
25. (4) And the pillars of the threshold shook at the voice
of the one crying and the house was filled with smoke.(5) And I
said
26. Woe is me because I am cut off Because I am a man of
unclean lips and in the midst of a people of unclean
27. lips I am dwelling. because my eyes have seen the King
YHWH of Hosts.
28. (6) And there flew to me one of the Seraphim and in his
hand a live coal taken with tongs
29. [{from upon the altar. (7) and he touched it to my
mouth}] and he said behold this has touched your lips and it has
been turned

Column VI Isa 6:7 to 7:15

1. (Continue 6:7) your iniquity away and your sins
have been forgiven. (8) And I heard he voice of the Lord
saying, Whom
2. shall I send and who will go for Us and I said here am I
send me. (9) and He said, Go and say
3. to this people You surely hear but you do not understand
and you surely see but you do not perceive. (10) The name
4. of the heart of this people and their ears are heavy and
their eyes are blinded lest they might see with their eyes
5. and with their ears they might hear and understand with
their hearts and repent and be healed by it (11) And I said, How
long
6. YHWH [m. adonay]. And He said to me, until the cities
lie wasted without inhabitants and the houses
7. without man and the land be wasted desolate. (12) And
YHWH has removed man afar
8. and there is a great abandoning in the midst of the land.
(13) Yet in it shall be a tenth and it shall return and it shall
be
9. for burning as an elm and as an oak whose memorial pillar
is in itself , the holy seed is
10. her memorial.(PP)
[*]

11. (Chapter 7:1) It came to pass in the days of Ahaz,
son of Jotham, son of Uzziah, King of Judah that Rezin came up
12. king of Syria and Pekah son of Remeliah king of Israel
to Jerusalem to make war against it.
13. And they were not able to capture it. (2) And it was
told to the house of David saying Syria is allied with
14. Ephraim and the hearts of the people were shaken as the
trees of [+the+] forest are shaken in the presence of [+the+] a
wind. (PP)

15. (3) And YHWH said to Isaiah, Go out now to meet Ahaz, you
and Shearyashuv
16. your son to the end of the watercourse of the upper
pool to the road of the field of the launderer. (4) and you shall
say
17. to him Listen and be quiet and do not be afraid and do
not let your heart fail from the two tails
18. of these smoking firebrands. because of the hot anger
of Rezin and Syria and the son of 19. Remaliah. (5) Because
Syrian has counselled evil against you with Ephraim and the son
of Remaliah, saying:
20. (6) Let us go up against Judah and we will distress her
and divide her for ourselves and we will crown a king in her
midst
21. even the son of Tabeal. (7) Thus says the Lord YHWH it
will not be established and it will not happen
22. (8) Because the head of Syria is Damascus and the head
of Damascus is Rezin and within sixty
23. [{five ye}]ars Ephraim shall be broken and not be a
people. (9) And the head of Ephraim is Samaria and the head of
24. [{Samaria is the son of}] Remaliah, if you do not have
faith you will not be trusted. (PP)

25. (10) [{And continuing YHW}]H spoke to Ahaz saying, (11)
Ask for yourself a sign from YHWH your God
26. [{from the deep ask}] it or from the height above. (12)
And Ahaz said I will nor ask and I will not
27. [{tempt}] YHWH. (13) And He said, Hear now Oh House of
David, is it a small thing for you
28. [{to wear}]y men, will you also weary God, (14) therefore
[+YHWH+] [m..adonay] himself will give to you [{a sign}]
29.[{Behold}] the virgin shall conceive and bring
forth a son and he shall call his name Immanuel. (15) Butter
[{and honey}]

Column VII Isaiah 7:15 to 8:8

1. (Continue 7:15) shall he eat so that he will
know to refuse evil and choose good. (16) because {&be&}fore the
youth shall know
2. to refuse the evil and to choose [&waw&} the good, the
land that you despise. shall be separated [&.waw.&} from
presence of
3. the two kings (17) And YHWH will bring upon you and
upon your people and upon the house of your fathers days
4. which have not come since the turning away of Ephraim
from Judah, even the king of Assyria.
5. (18) It will come to pass in that day that YHWH will
whistle for the fly which is at the ends of the streams of
6. Egypt and for the bee which is in the land of Assyria
(19) and they shall come and rest, all of them in the stream
[&waw&}
7. beds and in the holes of the rock cliffs and on all the
thorns and all shrubbery
8. (20) In that day the Lord will shave with a hired razor,
with those over the River, with the king of
9. Assyria, the head and the hair of {&the&} feet and also
it will consume [+ethah+] the beard.(PP)

10.[*] (21) And it will come to pass in that day that a man
will raise a heifer calf and two sheep. (22) And it shall be
11. because of the produce of much milk he shall eat butter,
because butter and honey they shall be eating, all
12. those who are left in the midst of the land.(PP)

13. (23) And it shall be [&[*]&} in that day in the place
where there were a thousand vines
14. at the cost of a thousand silver coins it shall
become briars and thorns. (24) With arrows and bows they shall
come
15. there the whole land shall become briers and thorns.
(25) but on all the hills
16. that are cultivated with the hoe, the fear of briers and
thorns shall not come there
17. {&yod&}bethwaw it shall be for sending oxen and
the treading of sheep.(PP)

18. (Chapter 8:1) And YHWH said to me take to yourself
a large scroll and write in it {&with&} a pen
19. of man for Maher shalal hash baz. (2) and I caused to
testify for me faithful witnesses,
20. Uriah the priest and Zachariah son of Jeberekiah . (3)
And I drew near to
21. the prophetess and she conceived and bore a son. And
YHWH said to me
22. call his name Maher shalal hash baz. (4) because
before the youth shall know to call
23. his father and his mother; It shall be taken away, the
wealth of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria
24. by the king of Assyria. (PP)

25. (5) And YHWH continued to speak to me saying: (6)
because this people despises
26. the waters of Shiloh which go lightly and rejoice in
Rezin and the son of
27. [{Remaliah, (7) Therefore behold}] YHWH {&adonay&} is
bringing up on you the waters of the River Euphrates28. [{strong and with multitudes, even the k}]ing of
Assyria.and all his glory and he shall go up
29. [{over all his channels and over all}] his river banks.
(8) and he shall go through Judah overflowing

Column VIII Isa 8:8 to 9:11

1. (Continue 8:8) and pass over and shall reach Tsor
and he shall stretch out his wings filling the wideness of your
land O Immanuel.
2.[*] (9) Join together peoples but you shall be broken, and
{&give&} ear to all far off lands, and prepare yourselves but you
shall be broken.
3.(10) Counsel advice but it shall be annulled, make speeches
but it will not stand for Immanuel has spoken.(PP)

4.[*] (11) For thus said YHWH to me; with a strong hand he
corrected me from walking in the way of this people, saying,
5. (12) Say ye not, a conspiracy, to all this people who say
a conspiracy and do not fear their fear
6. nor shall you be in dread of YHWH of Hosts (13) And He
is a sanctuary , and He is your fear and he is
7. your dread (14) and for sanctification but for a rock of
stumbling and he is a rock cliff of offence to both houses of
Israel
8. for a snare and for a trap to the inhabitants of
Jerusalem. (15) And many among them shall stumble and they shall
fall and they shall be broken, snared
9.[R*] and captured. (16) Make strait the testimony and
seal up the Torah among the learner. 17) And I will wait for
YHWH
10.[*] who is hiding {&.eth&} his face from the house of
Jacob and I will hope for him. (18) Look I and the children
whom
11. YHWH has given to me are for a sign and wonders in
Israel, from YHWH of Hosts who is dwelling in Mount Zion.(PP)

12.[*] (19) And in that they say to you, pursue the fathers
[&waw&}
wizards and to the ones having unnatural
knowledge and those making peeping sounds
13. and the moaners, should not a people pursue their God
for answers (for the living, not the dead) (20) from the
Torah
14. and the testimony (20 ought to begin here) If they are
not speaking according to this word in which there is no darkness
(21) Then they shall pass through it in hardness
15. and hunger. And it shall be when they shall hunger that
they will be wrathful and curse their king and against God and
turn from above (22) and to
16. the earth they will look and behold sorrow and darkness
dimness and anguish and they shall be driven into gloom. (23)
(English chapter 9:1 begins here) Yet [&waw&} the dimness
17. shall not be like that which was her anguish when at the
first time he lightly caused anguish to the land of
Zebulan and to the land of Naphtali and afterward
18. more heavily caused anguish by way of the sea
beyond Jordan, Galilee of the Gentiles. (English Chapter
9:2) (1) The people walking in darkness
19. have seen a great light. Those dwelling in the land of
the shadow of death, light has shined upon them (2) You have
increased
20.[*] the nation but you have not enlarged the joy.
They rejoice before you as those who rejoice in harvest and as
when they are happy [*]
21. in the division of spoil. (3) Because the yoke of his
burden and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor
you have broken
22. as in the day of Midian. (4) Because every war of a
warrior is with noise and clothes rolled in blood but this one
23. with burning consuming fire. (5) Because a child shall
be born to us and a son is given to us and the government shall
be upon
24. his shoulders and he shall be called wonderful,
counsellor, mighty God, everlasting father the prince of peace.
(6) Of the increase
25. of his government [&waw&} and his peace there shall be
no end. upon the throne of David and over his kingdom to order
it and to establish it
26. in judgement and in righteousness from and until
eternity, The zeal of YHWH of Hosts will perform this.
27. (7) The Lord sent a word upon Jacob [&ayin&} and it
fell in Israel. (8) And the people know, all of them, Ephraim
and the inhabitants of
28. Samaria in the pride and largeness of heart saying: (9)
The bricks are fallen but with hewn stones we will build. The
fig trees
29. are cut down but we will change them to cedars. (10)
And [{YHWH}] will set on high the enemies of Rezin against him
and his foes
30. He will gather together. (11) Syrians from the east and
the Philistines behind and they shall eat up Israel with open
mouth [&yod&}

Column IX Isaiah 9:11 to 10:14

1. (Continue 9:11) [+And+] For all this {&waw&} His
anger is not recalled but His hand is still outstretched.(12)And
the people do not return to the one striking them
2. and YHWH of Hosts they do not pursue. (PP)

3. (13) And YHWH will cut off from Israel head and tail
branch and bulrush in one day (14) The elder and the exalted of
4. face, he is the head {&waw&} and the prophet teaching
lies he is the tail.(15) And the leaders of
5. this people are causing them to err and those led are
being destroyed. (16) And He will not pity {&waw&} his chosen
ones
6. even the Lord and on the orphan and the widow he
will not have mercy because they are all profane and do evil
7. and every mouth speaks foolishness. For all this His
anger is not recalled but His hand is still outstretched.
8. (17) For wickedness burns as a fire brier and thorn
shall be eaten up {&waw&} and they shall set alight the thickets
of the forest
9. and they shall billow like the raging of smoke. (18)
From the fury of YHWH of Hosts is the land scorched and they
shall be
10. even the people shall be fuel for the fire, no man
shall pity his brother. (19) And he will cut off on the right
hand and be hungry
11. and he shall eat on the left and not be satisfied, each
man shall eat the flesh of his own arm. (20) Manasseh
12. against Ephraim and Ephraim against
Manasseh and they together against Judah For all this
13. His anger is not recalled but His hand is still
outstretched. (PP)

14. (Begin Chapter 10:1) Woe to those who
decree unjust statutes recording trouble which they have written.
(2) To turn away from the court
15. the poor, and to tear off judgement from the needy of my
people so that widows are their spoil and that the orphans.
16. they may rob (3) And what will you do in the day of the
visit and of the holocaust which shall come from afar to whom
will you flee
17. for help, Look! where will you leave your glory. (4)
Without me they shall bow under imprisonment and under those
murdered
18. they shall fall For all this His anger is not recalled
but His hand is still outstretched. PP)

19. (5) Woe to Assyria, the rod of my anger and the staff in
his hand is my rage. (6) I will send him against a profane
nation
20. and against the people of my wrath. I commanded him to
take spoils and to steal the plunder to make them a treading
place like mire in the streets.
21. (7) But he thinks not thus and in his heart he does not
consider it because to destroy is in his heart and to cut off
22. not just a few nations. (8) Because he says, Are
not my princes altogether kings? (9) Is not like Carchemish
23. Calno, is not Hamath like Arphad, is not Samaria like
Damascus. (10) Just as my hand has found
24. the kingdoms of the idol which were better than the
statues of Jerusalem and Samaria (11) shall I not as I have done
25. to Samaria and her idols shall I not also do to
Jerusalem and her idols. (12) [m..+and it shall be+] Because
the Lord will finish
26. all His work on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem. I will
visit the fruit of the great heart
27. of the king of Assyria and be against the splendor of
his high mindedness. (13) Because he says by the strength of my
hand I have done it and by my wisdom
28. [{because}] I am cunning I have removed {&yod&} national
boundaries and I have plundered their treasuries and I have
pulled down
29 [{like mighty men the inhab}]itants. (14) And my hand
has found the riches of the people as a nest and as one gathers
eggs
30. [{that are left, all the ea}]rth I have gathered and
there was none that fluttered a wing or opened their mouth

Column X Isa 10:14 to 11:12

1. (Continue Isa 10:14) or chirped. (15) Shall
the axe exalt itself above the one chopping with it or the saw
make itself greater than the one moving it as though it shook
itself
2. a rod or make itself greater than the one lifting it up
as if it could lift itself as though it were not wood. (PP)

3. (16) Therefore the Lord YHWH of Hosts shall send among
his fatlings leanness and instead of His glory he shall light a
flame like the burning of a fire.
4. (17) And the light of Israel shall be for a fire and his
Holy One for a flame and it shall burn and devour his thorns and
his briers in one day.
5. (18) And the Glory of His forests and His fields of
produce both spirit and flesh shall be consumed. And they
shall be as the melting of a standard bearer. and the remnant of
the number of the trees of His forest
6. can be written by a youth. (PP)

7. And it shall be in that day that the remnant of Israel
will no longer lean on the one who caused his wounds and the
escaped of the house of Jacob
8. but shall be supported by YHWH the Holy one of Israel in
truth The remnant shall return, the remnant of Jacob to the
Mighty God (22) Although
9. your people Israel shall be as the sand of the sea a
remnant shall return to it. The completion determined will
overflow with righteousness. (23) Because a completion and that
determined
10. shall the Lord YHWH of Hosts make in the midst of the
whole earth.(PP)

11. (24) Therefore thus says the Lord YHWH of Hosts my
people who dwell in Zion do not fear the Assyrian. He will
strike you with a rod and his staff
12. he will lift against you in the manner of Egypt. (25)
For yet a very little while and the rage will cease and my anger
will result in their destruction (26) He shall raise up
for
13. even YHWH of Hosts a whip like the wounding of
Midian at the Rock of Horeb
and as His rod was upon the sea so shall he raise it up as in
the way of Egypt. (PP)

14. (27) And it will be in that day that the burden shall be
taken from your shoulder and his yoke from off your neck and the
yoke shall be destroyed because of the presence of the anointing
oil (PP)

15. (28) He is come to Aiyath {&tau&} he passes over to
Migron at Michmash he reviews his materials. (29) They have
gone over the pass, Geba is our lodging place, Ramah trembles,
16. Gibeah of Saul takes flight. (30) Let your voice cry
out O Daughter of Captivities, cause it to be heard in Laish O
poor of Anathoth. (31) Madmemah has fled
17. the inhabitants of Gebim seek refuge. (32) Yet today he
will stand at Nob, he will shake his hand at the Mountain of the
Daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem. (PP)

18. (33) Behold the Lord YHWH of Hosts is lopping the branch
with terror and the {&he&}high standing ones shall be chopped
down and the high ones
19. shall be brought low. (34) And he shall peal off the
thickets of the forest with iron and Lebanon shall fall by a
mighty one.(PP)

20. (Begin Chapter 11:1) And there shall come
a rod out of the stem of Jesse and a branch (nazar) from his
roots will bear fruit. (2) And the spirit of YHWH will rest upon
him and the spirit of wisdom and understanding
21. the spirit of counsel, the spirit of might, the spirit
of knowledge and the fear of YHWH. (3) And he shall have an air
of the fear of YHWH and according to appearances he will not make
22. judgement and he will not rebuke according to the hearing
of his ears. (4) But he shall judge the poor with righteousness
and he will rebuke with uprightness the lowly of the earth and
He will strike
23. the earth {&with&} the rod of His mouth and {:He will
put to death the wicked:] and with the spirit of his lips he will
slay the wicked.(5) And righteousness shall be the girdle of His
hips and faithfulness
24. the girdle of His loins. (6) And the wolf shall dwell
with the lamb and the leopard shall lie down with the kid and the
calf and the young lion and the fatling together and a young
child shall lead
25. them (7) and the cow and the bear shall feed together
and their young ones lie down and the lion shall eat straw like
cattle. (8) And the infant shall play
26. on the hole of an adder and the toddler shall put his
hand on the viper's den. (9) they shall not do evil and they
shall not destroy in my holy mountain.
27. Because the earth shall be full of the knowledge of YHWH
as the waters cover the sea. (PP)

28. (10) There shall be in that day a root of Jesse who
shall stand as an ensign of the people to Him shall the Gentiles
pursue and His resting place
29. shall be glory. (11) And it will come to pass in that
day that the Lord will move his hand the second time to redeem
{&.eth&} the remnant of His people who remained
30. from Assyria and from Egypt and from Pathros and from
Cush and from Elam and from Shinar and from Hamath and from the
islands of the sea (12) And He shall raise up an ensign

Column XI Isaiah 11:12 to 14:1

1. (Continue 11:12) to the Gentiles and He shall
gather the outcasts of Israel and he shall gather the scattered
ones of Judah from the corners of the earth. (13) And it shall
be turned away
2. even the jealousy of Ephraim and the enemies of
Judah shall be cut off. Ephraim shall not envy Judah and Judah
will not provoke Ephraim
3. (14) And they will fly on the shoulders of the
Philistines toward the sea together. And they will spoil the
sons of the east and they shall place their hand on Edom and Moab
and the children of Ammon
4. shall obey them. (15) And YHWH will destroy the tongue
of the sea of Egypt and He will shake His hand over the River
with the power of His Spirit and he will strike it
5. into seven streams and He will make it a way to go over
dry shod. (16) And there shall be a highway for the remnant of
His people who are left from Assyria according as
6. it was to Israel in the day when he came up from the land
of Egypt. (PP)

7. (Chapter 12:1) And you shall say in that day I
thank YHWH because you were angry with me. He has turned away
his anger and He has given me rest. (2) Behold God, God, is my
salvation
8. I will trust and not be afraid because my strength and my
song is {&the&} YHWH. He is to me for Salvation. (3) And you
shall draw water with joy from the springs of
9. Salvation. (4) And you will say in that day give thanks
to YHWH call on His name make known among the people His actions
and make mention
10. that his name is exalted. {&shin&}. (5) Sing to YHWH
because He has done great things This is known in all the earth.
(6) Cry out and shout O (-daughter-) {&inhabitant&} of Zion
11. because great in the midst of you is the Holy One of
Israel. (PP)

12. (Begin Chapter 13:1) The Oracle of Babylon which
Isaiah the son of Amots saw as a vision. (2) Lift up an ensign
upon the bared mountain, raise your voice to them, shake the hand
13. that they may go into the doors of the nobles. (3) I
have commanded my holy ones I have also called my mighty ones in
my anger, those who are jubilant at my majesty. (4) The voice of
a multitude
14. on the mountains like a great people the voice of the
noise of the kingdoms of the Gentiles gathered together. YHWH is
visiting the Hosts of the war.
15. (5) They are coming from far lands and from the end of
the heavens YHWH with His equipment of indignation to destroy the
earth. (6) Howl because near is the day of
16. YHWH It shall come as devastation from the Devastator.
(7) Therefore all hands shall faint and every heart of man shall
melt. (8) And they shall be afraid, troubles
17. and woes shall seize them, they shall writhe as one
bearing a child, they shall be amazed at one another, their faces
shall be faces of flames. (9) Behold the day of
18. YHWH is coming, cruel and wrath and fierce anger, to
appoint the earth a desolation and He will destroy sinners from
it.
19. (10) Because the stars and their constellations shall not
light their light. The sun shall be dark in its going out and the
moon will not shine [...its light...].
20. (11) And I will visit evil upon the world-system and
iniquity upon the wicked and I will stop the arrogantly proud
and I will humble the high mindedness of the ruthless. (12) and
I will cause to be more prized
21. a man than fine gold, even a human than the pure gold
of Ophir. (13) Therefore I will shake the heavens and the earth
shall tremble out of its place by the wrath of YHWH of
22. Hosts and in the day of his fierce anger. (14) And it
shall be as a banished gazelle and as a sheep with no one
shepherding them and each man shall turn to his own people and
each man
23. shall flee to his own land. (15) Everyone found shall
be stabbed and the ones gathered shall fall by the sword. (16)
Their infants shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes.
24. Their houses plundered and their wives raped. (PP)

25. (17) Behold I will awaken the Medes against them who
shall not consider silver and as for gold they will not desire
it. (18) With their bows the youths
26. they shall dash to pieces and they will have no mercy on
the fruit of the womb and their eye will not pity children. (19)
And it shall come to pass that Babel most glorious kingdom
27. the excellent wonder of the Chaldeans will be as
when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. (20) It shall never be
inhabited and it shall not
28. be dwelt in from generation to generation and the Arab
shall not pitch his ten there, neither shall the shepherd bed
down his fold there. (21) And desert creatures shall lie down
there
29. and their houses shall be filled with jackals and
relatives of the owl shall dwell there and wild goats shall dance
there (22) and island [-&yod&} hyenas shall cry in widows'
houses
30. and serpents in their pleasant halls, [...and...] her
time is near to come and her days shall not be drawn out.
(Chapter 14:1 Because YHWH will have mercy on Jacob

Column XII Isaiah 14:1 to 29

1. (Continue Chapter 14:1) and he shall yet choose
Israel and he will settle them in their own land and sojourners
will be placed with them and they shall join
2. the house of Jacob. (2) And the people shall take
multitudes and bring them to their place
3. and the house of Israel shall inherit them in the land of
YHWH for servants and handmaids and they shall become captives
4. even their captors and they shall have dominion
over their oppressors. (PP)

5. (3) And it shall come to pass in that day the YHWH will
give you rest from your sorrow and from your trouble and from
your hard labor in which
6. was your toil. (4) Lift up this proverb against the king
of Babylon and you shall say How has ceased
7. the oppressor, and how has the fury ceased. (5) YHWH has shattered
the rod of the wicked and the staff of the governors. (6) He
struck the people
8. in wrath, striking without turning aside. He who
dominated the nations in anger is persecuted without restraint.
(7) In quiet rest,
9: is the whole earth, they break out in singing. (8) The
fir trees also rejoice at you, the cedars of Lebanon say
Since you have sat down
10. no axe man has arisen against us. (9) Sheol from
beneath is moved to meet your arrival, stirring up for you
11. the spirits of the dead, and all the goats of
the earth, it Sheol has raised up all the kings of the
Gentiles. (10) All of them shall speak
12. and say to you, have you also become sick like us are
you now compared to us. (11) Brought down to Sheol
13. is your pride also the sound of your harps, worms
are spread under you and maggots cover you. (12) How are you
fallen
14. from the heavens shining one, son of the dawn you are
hewn down to the earth O waster of nations. (13) For you have
said
15 in your heart I will go up to heaven above the stars of
God I will set my throne on high, I [{will sit}] on the mountain
16. of the meeting in the coasts of the north. (14) I will
go up to the high places of the clouds, I will be like the
highest. (15) But to Sheol
17. you shall be brought down to the borders of the pit.
(16) Those seeing you shall stare at you and considering
shall say, Is this the man
18. making {&the&} earth tremble and shaking kingdoms. (17)
Who put the world system as a desert and his prisoners
19. he did not open their houses. (18) All the kings of
the Gentiles lie in their own glory each in his own house. (19)
But you are sent out of
20. your grave [like] a
hated [N]azarene as
the clothes of those killed, pierced with the sword, the ones
going down {&to the stones&} of the pit, or as a trampled
down carcass.
21. (20) You will not be together with them in the grave,
because you have ruined your land and {&the &} people of your own
you have killed; they will [{no}]t be proclaimed forever
22. this seed of evil doers. (21) Prepare a
butchering for his sons on account of the iniquity of their
fathers, they shall not rise nor inherit the land
23. nor fill the world system with cities. (22) And
I will rise up against him says YHWH of Hosts and I will cut off
24. to Babylon name, remnant, posterity, and progeny says
YHWH. (23) And I will set it as a possession of the hedgehog
and standing marshy
25. water, and I will sweep it with the broom of
destruction says YHWH of Hosts. (24) And He is under oath
even YHWH
26. of Hosts saying, will it not be: just as I compared thus
will it be? and just as I have determined so shall it rise up?
27. (25.) To shatter Assyria in my land and upon my
mountains and I will tread him down and turn his yoke from upon
you and his burden
28, I will turn away from upon your shoulders. (26) This
is the purpose that is determined upon all the earth and this is
the hand
29. that is stretched {&yod&} out on all the Gentiles. (27)
Because YHWH of Hosts has determined it and who shall
annul and His hand is stretched out
28. and who shall cause it to return. (PP)

29. (28) In the year that king {&large Kaph&} Achaz died
this oracle came: (29) Do not rejoice Philistia

Column XIII Isaiah 14:29 to 16:14

1. (Continue 14:29) all of you because the rod of him
who struck you is broken; because from his root a serpent will
come out and a viper and his fruit shall be a fiery serpent
2. flying. (30) And the firstborn of the poor shall feed
and the needy shall lie down with confidence and I will kill with
hunger
3. your root and your remnant I {he} will slay your remnant.
(31) Howl O gate cry out O city Philistia is dissolved, all of
you,
4. because out of the north a smoke is coming and no one
will be isolated in that season. (32) And what answer shall be
given to the Gentile messengers? That YHWH
5. will establish Zion and the poor of His people will flee
into it. (PP)

6. (Chapter 15:1) The Oracle of Moab. Because in the
night the city {Ar} of Moab is devastated and cut off, because in
the night is devastated the city {Kir} of
7. Moab and cut off. (2) He has gone up to the
temple and to the high places {&aleph&}of Dibon to weep. Upon
Nebo and upon Madebah
8. Moab shall howl; on every head shall be baldness and
every beard cut off. (3) In her outskirts
9. they shall gird themselves with sackcloth on the roofs
and in the streets they shall all be howling collapsing in
weeping.
10. (4) And Heshbon shall cry and from Elealeh as
far as Yachad their voice will be heard. Therefore the pioneers
of Moab shall shout
11. because their lives will be evil to them. (5)
My heart cries out for Moab in her troubled flight to Zoar like a
three year old heifer
12. because in going up to Luchith they shall go up to it
with weeping. because in the way to Horanaim they shall raise up
a cry of destruction.
13. (6) Because the waters of Nimriym shall be desolate and
the hay is dried up and grass is consumed and greenness
14. is gone. (7) Therefore the wealth made and their
stores will be carried away to the Arabian River. (8) because
15. the cry is gone around the border of Moab and her
howling as far as Eglaim and as far as Beer Eyliym
16. her howling. (9) Because the waters of Dimon are full of
blood and I will put additional things upon Dimon, on those
fleeing
17 Moab, lions, and on the remnant of that land. (Chapter
16:1) Send a saddle to the ruler of the land, from Sela
Petra to the desert,
18. to the mountain of the daughter of Zion. (2) For it
shall be as a wandering bird is cast out of the nest so shall the
daughters of Moab
19. be at the passing over of the Arnon. (3) Take counsel,
make decisions, put your shadow as the night in the midst of
noon time (PP) (Q has a paragraph break in the middle of verse
16:3)

20. (Continue 16:3) Hide the outcasts, do not betray the
wanderer, (4) Let my outcasts sojourn with you O Moab be a
hiding place
21. for them from the face of the spoilers for the
extortioner is no more the spoiler is stopped and the trampler is
consumed out of the land. (5) And it shall be established
22. in mercy even the throne. And He shall sit on
it in the tent {&waw&} of David judging and pursuing judgement
23. and speeding righteousness. (6) We have heard of the
pride of Moab, excessively proud
24. and wrathful but his boasting shall not come to pass.
(7) Therefore Moab shall [not] howl for Moab everyone shall howl
for the foundations of
25. Kir Harosheth, they shall mourn like those stricken.
(8) Because the fields of Heshbon will wilt and the vineyards of
26. Sibmah {here Q omits the rest of verse 8 or 13 words and
a further 7 words in verse 9) (9) I will bathe you with my tears
O Heshbon and Elealeh because of the summer fruits and your
harvest
27. the cheering is fallen. (10) and happiness is taken
away {&aleph&} and joy from the orchard and there is no singing
in the vineyards nor
28. triumphal shouting. The treader shall tread out no wine
in the wine presses I have caused the cheering to cease (11)
Therefore my stomach
29. shall roar like a harp for Moab and my inward parts for
Kir Harosheth. (12) And it shall be when he is wearied that
30. Moab shall come to the high place and come to his
sanctuary {&yod&} to pray and he shall not be able. (PP)

31. (13) This is the word which YHWH has spoken to Moab from
then. (14) But now YHWH speaks

Column XIV Isaiah 16:14 to 18:7

1. (Continue Isa 16:14) saying within three years
like the years of a hired man shall the glory of Moab become base
in all
2. the mighty crowd and the remnant shall be a very small
with no glory (feeble}. (PP)

3. (Chapter 17:1) The Oracle of Damascus: Behold
Damascus is changed from being a city to a ruined heap.
4. (2) The cities of Aroer are abandoned, they shall be for
flocks and they shall lie down and not be afraid. (PP)

5. (3) The fortress shall cease from Ephraim and the kingdom
from Damascus and the remnant of Syria shall as the glory
6. of the sons of Israel become, say YHWH of Hosts. (PP)

7. (4) And it shall be in that day that the glory of Jacob
shall be base and his fatness shall grow lean. (5) And it shall
be
8. as the harvester gathering grain and his arm reaps the
sheaves and it shall be like gleaning sheaves
9. in the valley of Rephaim. (6) And left in it gleaning
grapes like the shaking of an olive tree, two or three berries
10. in the top bow, four or five in the top fruitful
branches says YHWH the God of
11. Israel. (7) In that day shall a man give regard for
his Maker and his eyes
12. to the Holy One of Israel shall look. (8) He shall not
give regard to the altars the works of him {his hands}
13. that which his fingers have made and he will not look to
the groves or the idols.(PP)

14. (9) In that day his strong cities shall be like an
abandoned limb or the top most bow which
15. they abandoned from the presence of the sons of Israel
and it shall be a desolation. (10) Because you forgot the God of
16. your salvation and the rock of your strength you did not
remember, therefore you shall plant pleasant plants and twigs
17 of strangeness you shall sow. (11) And in the day of
your planting you shall make it grow and in the morning you shall
make your seed sprout out See note.18. but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of
grief and sick anguish. (PP)

19. (12) Woe to the multitude of many people like the sound
of waters like the sound of nations
20. as the sound of waters they make a din. (13) Nations
like many crashing waters shall make a din
21. and he shall rebuke them and they shall flee afar off
and they shall be pursued like the chaff of the mountains before
the wind and like a rolling thing before
22. a whirlwind (14) And behold at evening time terror,
and before morning it is not, this is the share of those who
plunder us
23. and the lot of those who rob us. (PP)

24. (Chapter 18:1) Woe to the land of shadows of
wings which is beyond the rivers of Ethiopia. (2) Who send
ambassadors by sea
25. in vessels of papyrus reeds upon the face of the waters
saying Go swift messengers to a nation drawn {&waw&}
26. and polished to a terrible people from here and beyond,
a nation measured and subjugated which the rivers have looted.
27. its land. (3) All you who dwell in the world system
and inhababitors of the earth behold when he lifts up and ensign
on the mountains and when he blows
28. the shopher, give heed. (4) Because thus says YHWH to
me: I will rest quietly and consider
29. in my shekina dwelling place like dazzling heat
of rising light, like a cloud of dew in the heat of harvest. (5)
Because before harvest
30. when the sprouts are entirely completed and the grape is
ripening it shall be a flower and he shall cut off the sprigs
with pruning tools
31. and the branches he will turn aside and cut down. (6)
And they shall be abandoned together to the fowls of the
mountains and to the beasts of the
32. earth. And the fowls shall summer upon them and the all
the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them. (7) In the
season

Column XV Isaiah 18:7 to 19:23

1. (Continue chapter 18:7)even that one a
present shall be carried to YHWH of hosts of a people drawn out
and polished and from a people terrible from here
2. and beyond a nation measured and subjugated which land
the rivers have looted to the place of the name of YHWH of Hosts
3. even Mount Zion. (PP)

4. (Chapter 19:1) The Oracle of Egypt: Behold YHWH
rides on a swift cloud and coming to Egypt the idols of Egypt are
moved
5. before him and the heart of Egypt is melted {&qof&}
within him. (2) And I will shut in {&kaph&} the Egyptians against
the Egyptians and they shall war
6. each man against his brother and each man against his
neighbor and city against city and kingdom against kingdom. (3)
And the spirit of Egypt shall be emptied out
7. in the midst of it and I will swallow up their
counsellors and they shall seek to their idols and to their
enchanters and to their necromancers
8. and to their seance holders (4) And I will deliver the
Egyptians into the hand of a cruel lord and a powerful king and
they shall rule
9. over them says the Lord YHWH of Hosts. (5) And the
waters of the sea shall be dried up and the rivers shall be
wasted and dried up.
10. (6) And they shall turn away from the rivers and the
streams of Matsor shall be emptied and dried up, {&waw&} the
canes and the reeds shall wither. (7) The papyrus
11. on the steams and on the mouth of the streams and
everything cultivated by the streams shall dry up, be driven away
and nothing in it. (8) And the fish {fishermen}
12. shall mourn and all who cast hooks into the stream
shall lament and those who spread out nets on the face of the
waters shall diminish. (9) And they shall be ashamed
13. even the workers in combed linen as well as the
weavers of white lace. (10) And their goals shall be broken
14. even all those making wages from ponds of living
creatures. (11) The princes of Tsoan are absolute fools, the
wise counsellors of Pharoah
15. even their counsel is burned up. How do you say
to Pharoah I am the son of wise men, I am the son of the Kings of
the East. (12) Whence
16. and from where are your wise men, let them tell you
please, let them make known what YHWH of {&Hosts&} has counselled
about Egypt. (13) They have become fools
17. even the princes of Tsoan, the princes of Noph
are deceived, they have led Egypt astray, even the
cornerstone of her tribes. (14) YHWH
18. has mingled a warped spirit within her and they have led
Egypt astray in all her work as he staggers
19. even a drunkard in his vomit. (15) And there
shall not be work for Egypt which they can do, head or tail,
20 branch or reed. (16) In that day Egypt shall be like
women, and she shall tremble and be afraid
21. of the presence of the waving of the hand of YHWH of
Hosts which He is waving over them. (17) And it will be that
22. the land of Judah shall be for a terror for Egypt,
everyone who recalls it for himself 23. will be afraid of the
presence of the counsel of YHWH of Hosts which He has
determined against it.
24. (18) In that day there shall be five cities in the land
of Egypt speaking the language of
25. Canaan and swearing to YHWH of Hosts; one city shall
be called Haheres or destruction or
Heliopolis (19) In the day
26. even that one, there shall be an altar to YHWH in the
midst of the land of Egypt and a memorial next to her border
27. for YHWH. (20) And it shall be for a sign and a
witness to YHWH of Hosts in the land of Egypt because they shall
cry out
28. to YHWH in the presence of the ones oppressing and He
will send to them a savior and a great one a Rab and he
will deliver them. (21) And He will be known
29. even YHWH to Egypt and the Egyptians shall know
YHWH and it shall be in that day that they will offer sacrifices
30. and offerings and they shall vow a vow to YHWH and make
peace offerings. (22) And YHWH will strike Egypt, He will
strike but he will heal
31. and they shall return to YHWH and he shall be entreated
by them and heal them. (23) In that day there shall be a highway
32. from Egypt to Assyria and the Assyrians shall come into
Egypt and the Egyptians into Assyria and they shall serve

Column XVI Isaiah 19:23 to 21:15

1: Continue 19:23) Assyria. (24) In that day Israel
shall be third with Egypt
2. and with Assyria a blessing in the midst of the land.
(25) To whom, even, YHWH of Hosts they have blessed saying,
3. blessed are my people Egypt and the works of my hands
Assyria and my inheritance Israel. (PP)
[*]

4. (Chapter 20:1) In the year that Tartan came to
Ashdod when Saigon King of Assyria sent him, he fought
5. against Ashdod and conquered it. (2) At that same time
YHWH spoke by the hand of Isaiah the son of Amots
6. saying go and loosen the {&sackcloth&} from your thighs
and remove your shoes from your feet. And he did
7. thus walking naked and barefoot. (3) And YHWH said just
as my servant Isaiah has walked
8. naked and barefoot three years as a sign and a
wonder upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia. (4) Thus shall lead
9. the king of Assyria the Egyptians captives and the
Ethiopians to captivity young and old naked
10. and barefoot and the buttocks uncovered to the shame of
Egypt. (5) And they shall be dismayed and ashamed of Ethiopia
their hope (expectation}
11. and of Egypt their splendor. (6) And {&those
dwelling&} in this island shall say in that day behold
12. thus is our expectation to which we fled there for help
to be delivered from the presence of the king of Assyria
13. and how shall we then escape. (PP)

14. (Chapter 21:1) The Oracle of the Desert of the
Sea Babylon As whirlwinds pass through the Negev it comes
from the desert the east from a {&terrible&}(--desert--)
land
15. (2) A hard vision is told to me, the traitor is
treacherous, the spoiler is spoiling. Go up 16. Elam raise a
seige Media, I have stopped all her mourning. (3) Therefore my
loins are full of pain
17. sorrows seize me as the sorrows of childbirth, I was
bowed down at the news, I was I was troubled
18. at the sight. (4) My heart wandered, the horror
terrified me, my evening's desire, He has changed for me
19. to fear. (5) Set the table and the watch of
the watch tower, eat, drink, rise up, Let the princes
20. anoint the shield. (6) Because thus said the Lord to
me. go and cause a watchman to stand watch that which
21. he sees let him tell. (7) and he saw a chariot
with {+a man+] a team of horses, and a chariot of asses
22. and a chariot of camels, and he listened carefully,
exceedingly carefully. (8) And he called out, [a lion], upon the
watchtower
23. my Lord, I am continuously standing daily, and upon my
watch I am standing
24. every night. (9) and behold there it comes, a man with
a team of horses and he answered and said
25. it is fallen, Babylon is fallen! and all the idols of
her gods are shattered to the earth. (10) O my threshed grain and
produce
26. of my walled enclosure. That which I have heard from
YHWH of Hosts the God of Israel I have told
27. to you. (PP)

28. (11). The Oracle of Dumah: He called to me from Seir,
Watchman what of the night? Watchman what of the night?.
29. (12) The watchman said the morning comes and also the
night, if you will enquire, enquire, return, come. (PP)
[*]

30. (13) The Oracle of Arabia of the Forest: you shall
lodge in Arabia O caravans of Duodenum. (14) To meet
31. the thirsty the inhabitants of the land of Texan brought
water, with their bread they anticipated the wanderer. (15)
Because
32. from the presence of {&the&} multitude [sword] they
wandered abroad, from the presence of the [drawn] {&tech-waw&}
sword and from the presence of the bent bow and from the presence
of

Column XVII Isaiah 21:15 to 22:24

1. (Continue 21:15) the heavy burden of war. (16)
Because thus said YHWH to me in yet [m..three] [*O] years [one
year] as the years of
2. a hired man all the glory of Kedar will be ended. (17)
And the remnant of the number of archers of the mighty men of
{&the sons&} of Kedar shall be diminished.
3. because YHWH the God of Israel has spoken. (PP)

4. (Chapter 22:1) The Oracle of the Valley of The
Vision of [+the kings of Aephoa+] [m..What is with you now?]
because all of you have gone up to the roofs (2) a city full of
noise, a city
5. of tumult, a city of glee, your slain are not slain of
the sword nor your dead of war. (3) All
6. your rulers have wandered off together, they are
constrained by the archers, all those found within you are
constrained together, far away
7. they have fled. (4) Therefore I said look away from me
for I am bitter in my weeping do not hasten to comfort me
concerning
8. the destruction of the daughter my people. (5)
[{Because it is a day}] of trouble, treading down and confusion
to the Lord YHWH
9. of Hosts in the valley of vision of His holy place upon
the mountain [m..breaking down walls and sanctifying [crying out
to] the mountains.] (6) and Elam lifted {&yod&} up the quiver
10. with chariots of mankind and horsemen and Qir uncovered
the shield. (7) And it shall be that your choicest valleys shall
be full of
11. chariots and the horsemen shall surely place themselves
at the gate. (8) And you shall roll aside the curtain of Judah
and you shall look
12. in that day to the armory of the house of the forest.
(9) You have seen the breaches of the city of David
13. that they are great and you have gathered together the
waters of the lower blessing or pool (10) And the houses
of Jerusalem
14. you have counted and you have broken the houses down to
fortify the wall. (11) and you made a channel between the two
walls
15. for the waters of the old blessing or pool and
neither did you look to its maker nor the one who fashioned it
long ago
16. did you see. (PP)

17. (12) And in that day will the Lord YHWH of Hosts call
for crying and for mourning and for baldness
18. and for the girding of sack cloth. (13) and behold joy
and gladness and killing of cattle and slaughter of sheep and
eating of
19 flesh and drinking wine, Eat and drink for tomorrow we
die. (14) And he disclosed in my ears evenYHWH
20. of Hosts, in no way will this iniquity be atoned for you
until you die says the Lord
21. YHWH of Hosts. (PP)

22. (15) Thus said the Lord YHWH of Hosts, go, arrive to
this steward, even Shebna
23. who is over the household. and say (16) What is
yours here and who is yours here that you have hewn out here a
tomb for yourself
24. hewing out on high his tomb, engraving in the rock cliff
a habitation for himself. (17) Behold YHWH will hurl you away
25. with a mighty exile and will surely cover you up. (18)
With a great rolling {&yod&} he will roll you like a ball to
26. a land of wide spaces, there shall you die and there
shall the chariots of your glory be the shame of the house
27. of your lord. (19) And I will drive you from your
fortress and from your office shall He throw you down. (PP)

28. And it will be in that day that I will call to my servant
to Eliakim, son of Hilkiah (21) And I will cause him to be
dressed {&tau&}
29. in your tunic and will strengthen him with your girdle
and I will give your government into his hand and he shall be
30. as a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem and to the
house of Judah. (22) And I will give him the key of the house of
David
31. upon his shoulder and he will open and no one shall shut
and shut and no one will open. (23) And I will drive him
as a nail in an
32. established place and he shall be for a throne of glory
for his father's house. (24) And they shall hang upon him all
the glory of

Column XVIII Isaiah 22:24 to 24:4

1. (Continue 22:24) the house of his father, and all
the offspring {&aleph&} and the produce of all the vessels, from
the small vessels as basins
2. to all containers like pitchers. (25) In that day says
YHWH of Hosts He shall remove
3. the peg that is fastened in a secure place and it shall
be chopped down and fall and the burden shall be cut off
4. that was upon it because YHWH has spoken. (PP)

5, (Chapter 23:1) The Oracle of Tyre: Howl ships of
Carthage because it is so devastated that there is no house, no
entrance, from the land of
6. Kittiym [the Romans?
or Cyprus] it is uncovered for you. (2) Be silent
inhabitants {&waw&} of the island the merchants of Sidon who
pass over the sea [+your messengers+] [m..fill you up.]
7. (3) And by great waters the harvest of the Nile-canals
is her produce and she is merchant
8. to the Gentiles (4) Be ashamed Sidon for the sea says,
the sea speaks from her strength, I do not
9. labor in childbirth nor bring up children neither do I
raise young men nor bring up virgins.
10. (5)As it was when you heard {&about&} Egypt so shall they
travail when you hear about Tyre. (6) Pass over to Carthage
{&resh&}, Howl
11. O inhabitants of the island. (7) Is this joy for you?
You were ancient in olden days
12. Her feet shall carry her far away to sojourn. (8) Who
has devised this against Tyre the giver of crowns
13. whose {&merchants&} are princes and her traders are the
glorified one of the earth. (9) YHWH of Hosts has devised it
14. to profane the pride of all beauty and to make light of
all the glorified ones of the earth. (10) Pass over your land
like a stream
15. O daughter of Carthage there is no longer a restraint.
(11) He stretches out his hand over the sea He shakes up
kingdoms
16. YHWH has commanded to Canaan {&to&} destroy her
fortresses. (12) And he said you shall continue
17. no more to rejoice O oppressed virgin daughter of Sidon.
To Kittiym arise and pass over
18. there, also there will be no rest for you. (PP)

19. (13) Behold the land of the Chaldeans this people did
not exist, Assyria established it as a wilderness20. they set up {&her&} siege towers, they stripped away
her palaces, they placed it as a ruin {&pe&}. (14) Howl
21. ships of Carthage because your fortress is spoiled (15)
And it shall be in that day that to Tyre
[10 words of verse 15 are
omitted at this point]

22. will be like the song of a harlot. (16) Take a harp,
go round the city forgotten harlot, make
23. a nice song, multiply music so that you might be
remembered. (17) And it shall be at the end of seventy years
24. that YHWH will visit Tyre and she will return to her
prostitution and she will fornicate (with all} the kingdoms of
25. the earth upon the face of the ground. (18) And her
merchandise and her prostitution shall be holiness
26. to YHWH it shall not be treasured nor stored because
for those dwelling in the presence of YHWH
27. it shall be their merchandise to consume, to satisfy and
for fine clothes. (PP)

28. (Chapter 24:1) Behold YHWH will empty the earth
and make it a waste and twist in reverse its face and scatter
29. its inhabitants. (2) And it shall be as it is with the
people so with the priest and as to the servant so to the lord,
as to the hand maid
30. so to the mistress and as the buyer so the seller and as
the lender so the borrower and as the receiver of interest so to
the one who pays
31. to him. (3) The land shall be completely emptied and
altogether plundered, because YHWH has spoken
32. this word. (4) The earth mourns and fades away the
world system droops and fades away

Column XIX Isaiah 24:4 to 25:3

1. (Continue 24:4) The highminded {&people&} of the
earth wilt. (5) And the earth is polluted by those who
inhabitant it. because
2. they have transgressed the Torah and have altered the
statutes and have violated the eternal covenant. (6) Therefore
His oath has devoured
3. [m..+the earth] and those dwelling in it as the
offenders, on this account the inhabitants of the earth are
scorched and there is a remnant of men
4. a very small. (7) The fresh pressed grape juice mourns
and the vines wilt, all the joyful hearts sigh. (8) It ceases
5. even the mirth of tambourines, the noise of joy
stops, the mirth of the harp ceases. (9) with a song
6. they shall not drink wine and strong drink will be bitter
to those who drink it. (10) The disoriented city is shattered,
barred are
7. all the houses from entering. (11) A cry for wine in the
outskirts, all joy is darkened,
8. mirth is rolled away from the land. (12)
Desolation only remains in the city and destruction
strikes
9. the gate. (13) Because thus shall it be in the midst of
the land in the middle of the people it shall be like the shaking
of an olive tree
10. like gleaning when the vintage is finished. (14) They
shall life up their voice, they shall sing about the majesty of
11. YHWH, [Q end verse here] They shall cry out from
the sea. (15) Therefore glorify YHWH in the valleys and
in the isles of the sea
12. the name of YHWH God of Israel. (PP)

13. (16) From the corners of the earth we have heard songs,
Beauty shall be to the righteous, I am thin. I am
very thin,
14. woe is me the traitors betray and the clothing of the
betrayers is their treachery (17) Fear and the pit
15. and the snare are upon you O inhabitant of the earth.
(18) and it shall be that the one fleeing from the sound of the
fear shall fall
16. into the pit, and the one coming up out of the pit shall
be captured by the snare because the windows
17. from the highest are opened and the foundations of the
earth quake. (19) It is altogether broken up
18. even the earth. The earth is split wide open and
is repeatedly shaken. (20) The staggering
19. of the earth shall be like the reeling of a drunkard and
the shaking of a shed and her transgressions shall be a weight
upon her
20. and she shall fall and shall not rise again. (PP)

21. (21) And it will be in that day that YHWH will visit the
host of the highest in the highest places22. and upon the kings of the earth who are upon the earth.
(22) They shall be gathered together [m..prisoners] in the pit
and they shall be shut up
23. in the dungeon. But this visitation will be after many
days. (23) And the moon shall be embarrassed and she will be
ashamed
24. the sun because YHWH will reign in Mount Zion and
in Jerusalem
25. before his elders in Glory. (PP)

26. (Chapter 25:1) YHWH you are my God, I will extol
you, {&yod&} I will give thanks to your name, you have done
wonders,
27. your counsels from afar are steadfast
faithfulness. (2) Because you change a city into a mound, a
fortress city
28. into a ruin {&pe&} a palace
of aliens from being a city at all it shall never be
built. (3) Therefore they shall glorify You
29. even strong peoples, terrifying cities of the
Gentiles shall fear you. (4) Because you have been a refuge
for the poor
30. a refuge for the needy in his sorrows, a shelter from
the downpour, a shadow from parching heat, because the wind of
the ruthless
31. is as a downpour against the wall (5) As parching heat
in a dry place you shall bring down the tumult of aliens, the
parching heat in the shadow of a cloud
32. The song of the terrible ones is answered. (PP)

Column XX Isaiah 25:6 to 26:18

1. (Chapter 25:6) And YHWH of Hosts shall make to all
this people in this mountain a feast of fatlings,
2. and a feast of mature wine of marrowed fatlings and
refined mature wine. (7) And He will swallow up in this
mountain
3. even this one the presence of the covering which
covered over all the people and the veil spread over
4. all the Gentiles. (8) He will swallow up death
perpetually and the Lord YHWH shall wipe away tears
5. from upon all faces and the shame of his people he shall
turn away from all the earth because YHWH
6. has spoken. (PP)

7. (9) And you [it] shall say in that day Behold YHWH, this
is our God, we have waited for Him and he saves us
8. this is YHWH we have waited for him we are glad and
rejoice in his salvation. (10) Because, it shall rest the hand
9. of YHWH in this mountain and He shall tread down Moab
under Him as straw is trodden down in
10. a dunghill. (11) And He shall spread out His hands in
the midst of them as he who swims spreads out to swim,
11. and He shall bring down their pride with the spoils of
their hands. (12) And the fortress of the tower of your walls
12. He shall prostrate them, bringing them down and bringing
them to the earth to dust. (PP)

13. (Chapter 26:1) In that day this song shall be
sung in the land of Judah, we have a strong city
14. He has put Yeshuah (salvation) for walls and
ramparts. (2) Open your gates that the righteous nation will
enter who keeps
15. the truth. (3) The sustained mind is held in great
peace because it trusts in You (4) [{trust in}] in YHWH
16 for ages {&yod&} of ages because in Yah YHWH is a rock of
ages. (5) because He sets [brings down] those who dwell on
high, the city
17. that is exalted He causes it to fall to the earth, He
causes it to fall to the dust. (6) they shall trample it
with the feet of
18. the poor the steps of the lowly. (7) The
way of the righteous is straightness, You weigh the straight path
of the righteous.
19. (8) Even in the way of your judgements YHWH, I have
waited for your name [+and your
Torah+] and our soul longing is for your [m..memory.]
20. (9) with soul-desire my soul has desired you in
the night, even with my spirit within me I will seek you
early because when your judgements
21. are in the earth the inhabitants of the
world-system learn righteousness. ( 10) If the wicked finds
mercy he will not learn righteousness, in the land of
22. candid truth he will do evil and will not see the
majesty of YHWH. (PP)

23. (11) YHWH, Your hand is lifted, but they can not
perceive, They will perceive and then be ashamed, jealousy of the
people even,
24. the fire of your enemies shall consume them. (12)
YHWH you will ordain peace for us because also all our deeds
25 you have worked for us. (13) YHWH our God, other lords
have mastered us
26. to you only will we make mention of your name. (14)
They are dead ones, they shall not live, they are dead spirits,
they shall not rise, therefore
27. you visited them and you destroyed them and you turned
aside [+made perish+] all remembrance of them. (15) You have
added to the nation YHWH
28. You have added to the nation, you are glorified, You
have placed far off all the ends of the earth. (PP)

29. (16) YHWH, they visited you in sorrow, they poured out
their whispered prayer, your correction was on them. (17) Like
a pregnant woman the time
30. to bear draws near and in pain she cries out in her
woes so have we been in your presence O YHWH. (18) We have been
with child, we have been in pain
31. in a sense we have borne wind, we have not worked
[+your+] salvation in the earth, neither have the residents of
the world system fallen.

Column XXI Isaiah 26:19 to 28:2

1. (19) But your dead ones shall live with my
dead body they shall arise. They shall awake and sing O
inhabitants of the dust.
2. because your dew is as the dew of light and the earth
shall cast out the departed. (PP)

3. (20) Go my people, come into your abodes and shut your
doors in your moment and hide for a little while
4. until the indignation will pass over. (21) Because {m+behold} YHWH
will go out from his place to visit with evil the
inhabitants of
5. the earth upon them, and the earth will reveal her blood
sheds and she will not cover over any more
6. her murders. (PP)

7. (Chapter 27:1) In that day YWHW will visit with
his sword his mighty and great and
8. and strong upon Leviathan the fugitive serpent, and upon
Leviathan the crooked serpent and he shall kill
9. the sea-monster who is in the sea. (PP)

10. (2) In that day a vineyard of red wine, sing to it.
(3) I YHWH will keep (lit. I will
nazar it) it moment by moment,
11. I will give her drink lest anyone will punish her, night
and day I will guard (lit. I will nazar) her (4) Wrath is not
12. in me, who will give me briars and thorns in war? I will
step on them,
13. I will burn them together, (5) Or let him seize on my
refuge and let him make peace with me
14. Peace he will make with me. (6) He will cause those of
Jacob who come to be rooted and they will blossom
15. and Israel will bear fruit and fill up the face of the
world-system with her produce. (7) Is the striking of his
striking like
16. he struck him or is the slaughter of his slaying like he
slew them (8) By driving them out and by sending them out
you argued with them
17. He drove them out with his strong wind in the day of the
east wind (PP)

18.(9) Therefore by this shall the evil of Jacob be covered
and this will be the completed fruit of the turning away of his
sins
19. when he puts all the stones of the altar as the stones
of his sojourn shattered, they will not be raised up
20. as asheriym nor incense altars. (10) Because the
fortress city shall be desolate and the meadow shall be left and
abandoned
21. like a wilderness, There shall the calf feed and there
shall he lie down and consume all her branches. (11) when their
harvest is withered. (PP)

22. Women break them off {&coming&} setting them on fire
because it is a non-understanding people. There-
23. fore he who made them will have no mercy on them and He
who formed them will not be gracious to them. (PP)

24. (12) And it will be in that day the YHWH will beat out
from the fruitful flow of the river as far as the stream of
25. Egypt and you shall be reaped one by one even
the children of Israel. (PP)

26. (13) And it shall be in that day that a great shopher
shall be blown and they shall come, those perishing in the land
27. of Assyria and those banished in the land of Egypt and
they shall bow down to YHWH in the Holy Mountain
28. in Jerusalem. (PP)

29. (Chapter 28:1) Woe to the crown of pride of the
drunkards of Ephraim whose glorious beauty is a fading blossom
30. which are at the tops of the rich valleys of those who
are struck down by wine. (2) Behold {&in&} strength He shows
power
31. even YHWH {le adonay} as a downpour of hail
and a destroying storm as a downpour of powerful waters
overflowing

Column XXII Isaiah 28:2 to 28:24

1. (Continue Chapter 28:2) [and] it shall be laid to
rest nearby (3) They shall be trampled under feet even
the crown of pride of the drunkards of
2. Ephraim. (4) And their glorious beauty shall be a
fading blossom which is at the tops of the valleys
3. of fatness as her first fruits before summer which when
he looks and seeing it
4. being yet in his hand it is swallowed up. (PP)

5. (5) In that Day YHWH of Hosts shall be for a crown of
beauty and for a diadem
6. of splendor to the remnant of his people (6) and for
the spirit of judgement for those sitting upon the judgement seat
and for power
7. for those returning the warfare {to the) gate. (7) And
they also went astray by wine and wandered about by strong drink,
the priest
8. and the prophet have gone astray by strong drink, they
are swallowed by the wine they have wandered about from strong
drink they go astray as seers
9. and they totter in decisions (8) Because all tables are
filled with vomit and excrement without space. (PP)
[*]see note for this unusual
mark

10. (9) Whom shall He teach knowledge and whom shall he
cause to understand what is heard, those who are weaned from
milk, those grown too old
11. from the breasts (10) For it is command to
command, command to command, line to line, line to line, a bit
here and a bit there.
12. (11) Because with stammering lips and with another
tongue will he speak to this people. (12) This is that which he
says
13. to them This is the rest that you must lay before the
weary and this is the repose but you were not
14. willing {to} listen. (13) and the word of YHWH was
to them command to command, command to command, line to line,
line
15. to line, a bit here and a bit there so that they might
go and stumble backward to be broken and to be trapped
16. and be captured. (PP)

17. (14) Therefore hear the word of YHWH scornful men who
are rulers of this people who are in Jerusalem.
18. (15) Because you say we have cut a covenant with death
and with Sheol we have made a vision, the scourge
19. is overflowing because it will pass over [Q lacks -
ayin] it will not come to us because we have put a lie for our
shelter and in deception have we hid ourselves.
20. (16) Therefore thus says {+&adonay&} YHWH Behold I
make a stone foundation in Zion, a tried corner stone
21. precious, and exceedingly strong foundation, and the one
believing shall not be careless. (17) And I will put justice to
the line
22. and righteousness to the plumb line and hail shall sweep
away the covering of lies and water shall engulf the hiding
place.
23. (18) And your covenant with death shall be covered over
also your vision [+with+] Sheol shall not stand
24. The overflowing scourge that is passing over and you
shall be to it for treading down. (19) From the time of its
passing over it shall take
25. you because every morning it shall pass over in the
morning and in the night [and it shall be] a terror just
26. to understand the sound. (20) Because the bed is
shorter than one might stretch himself and the covering
[m..+narrow] as a cover
27. than he can cover himself with. (21) Because as in
Mount Peraziym YHWH will rise up in the valley of Gibeon
28. He will rage to do His work, his strange work, and to
toil in his labor his alien labor.
29. (22) And now do not make light lest your bindings be
strengthened because an end has been determined,
30. I have heard from the [m..+Lord] YHWH of Hosts
concerning the whole earth. (PP)

31. (23){&H&} Listen and hear my voice, draw near and hear
what I am saying. (24) All day

Column XXIII Isaiah 28:24 to 29:21

1. (Continue 28:24) does the plowman plow to sow?
Does he open and harrow {&yod&} his ground. (25) Is it not when
he levels the face of it and scatters
2. fitches and spreads cumin and puts in rows of wheat and
choice barley and the rye of its border.
3. (26) And his God disciplines him for judgement and
teaches him. (27) because fitches are not threshed with a sharp
pointed instrument neither is a cart wheel on the cumin
4. turned, because fitches are beaten out with a rod and
cumin with a branch. (28) [m..Bread] It is crushed because he
will not always be working at threshing it
5. or crush it with the {&wheel&} of his wagon nor will his
horsemen stamp on it. (29) This also proceeds from YHWH of
Hosts
6. marvelous counsel and grand efficiency (PP)

7. (Chapter 29:1) Woe to Ariel the Lion of
God, The Lion of God, the city of David's encampment, add year to
year and encompass the sacrificial feasts. (2) I will make
oppression
8. to Ariel and there shall be heaviness and sorrow and it
shall be to me as to Ariel. (3) And I will encamp surrounding
about against you
9. and I will lay siege against you with a palisade and I
will raise up fortresses against you. (4) And you shall fall
and speak from the earth and from dust it shall be bowed
10. even your speech and your voice shall be as an
obia-wizard from the ground and from the dust your speech shall
whisper. (5) And they shall be as fine powder the multitude
11. of your strangers and as chaff passing over is the
multitude of terrorists and it shall happen in an instant
suddenly. (6) From YHWH of hosts with
12. you shall be visited with thunder and with earthquake
and with a great voice, great storm and whirlwind and flames of
devouring fire (7) And they shall be
13. like the dream of a night vision even all the
nations who wage war against Ariel and all those fighting her
14. and their arms and those causing distress to her. (8)
And it shall be as when the hungry dreams and behold he is
eating
15. and he awakens and his soul is empty or as when the
thirsty dreams and behold he drinks and awakens and behold he is
tired
16. and his soul is anxious, so shall be the multitude of all
the nations who make war against Zion. (PP)

17. (9) Wait and marvel and be awe struck {&tau&} and cry
out, they are drunk but not [from] wine They stagger but not
from strong drink. (10) Because
18. YHWH has poured out on you the spirit of a deep sleep
and He has strongly shut your eyes, The prophets and the rulers
19. and the seers of visions he has covered over. (11) And
the whole vision has become for you like the words of a book that
is sealed which they give
20. to one who knows how to read {&"H"&} saying read this
please, and he says I am not able because it is sealed. (12)
and it is given,
21. the book, to one who does not know how to read saying
read this please and he says I do not know how to read. (PP)
[*]

22. (13) And the Lord said on account of this people drawing
near to my presence with their mouth and glorifying me with
their lips while their heart
23. is far from me and their awe of me by commandments of
men is taught. (14) Therefore behold I will again
24. do a marvel among this people, a marvel and a wonder,
and the wisdom of their wise men shall vanish and the
understanding of their discerning
[*]
25. shall be hidden. (PP) (Actually an extra large spatium)
(15). Woe to those acting profoundly to keep their counsel secret
from YHWH and
26. their works are in darkness and they say, who sees
{&waw&} us and who knows us. (16) Your perversity is as if the
former's clay
27. shall be thought of (as the same thing) for the
work says {&waw&} to the maker you did not make me or the formed
clay to the one forming him he does not understand. (17) Is it
not
28. yet only a little while and Lebanon shall be returned to
being a grove land and the grove land shall be thought of as a
forrest. (18) And they shall hear in the day
29. even that one, the deaf, the words of the book,
and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity and out of
darkness. (19) And they shall increase
30. even the humble, joy in YHWH and the needy ones
of mankind shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel. (20)
Because the tyrant is null
31. and the scorner is finished and all the watchmen of
evil are cut off. (21) The ones causing sins of mankind in
speech and for the one laying a snare in the gate

Column XXIV Isaiah 29:21 to 30:20

1. (Continue Isa 29:21) for the one reproving and
perverting the righteous for that which is unreal. (PP)
[*]

2. (22) Therefore thus says YHWH, who redeemed Abraham, to
the house of Jacob. Not now
3. shall Jacob be ashamed and his face shall not now grow
pale. (23) Because when he sees his children the work of my
hands in his midst
4. they shall sanctify my name and cause sanctification to
the Holy one of Jacob and to the God of Israel they will be
struck with awe.
5. (24) And the erring spirits shall know understanding and
the backbiters shall learn doctrine. (PP)
[*]

6. (Chapter 30:1) Woe to the rebelling children says
YHWH for making counsel but not from me and for covering with a
cover
7. but not of my Spirit for the purpose of adding sin to
sin. (2) To the ones walking to go down {&tau&} to Egypt and of
my mouth
8. they have not asked but for strengthening in the
strength of Pharoah and to seek refuge in the shadow of Egypt.
(3) And the strength of Pharoah shall be to you
9. for a shame and for you the trust in the shadow of Egypt
[m..a disgrace]. (4) Because his princes were at Zoan and his
messengers arrived at Chanes.
10. (5) All are ashamed of a people who could not aid them
nor help nor profit but for a shame
11. and also a reproach. (PP)

12. (6) The Oracle of the beasts of the Negev in the land of
sorrow and [exodus] and distress, old lions, young lions [and
there is no water]
13. viper, flying seraph. They will carry away on the
backs of asses the wealth and their treasures on the humps of
camels
14. to a people who shall not profit. (7) For the
Egyptian's helping is vain and empty therefore I called this one
Rahab, they
15. sit and do nothing. (8) And now go write {&waw&}
it on a tablet before them and engrave it upon a book that it
may be for the latter day
16. and the times of the ages. (9) Because this is a
rebellious people, deceitful children, children who do not want
to hear the Torah of
17. YHWH. (10) who say to the seers, see not and to the
seers of visions see no more visions for us of right things,
speak
18. flatteries to us and see visions of deceits (11) Turn
aside from the way, move away from the path, cause to cease from
our presence
19. the Holy One of Israel. (PP)

20. (12) Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel,
because of your rejection in this word and you trust in
oppression
21. and deviousness and you depend on it (13) Therefore
this evil ["he"] {&yod
waw&} shall be an outburst for you, falling, bulging in a
wall
22. of great height whose shattering will come suddenly in
an instant. (14) and he shall shatter it like potters breaking
a pitcher in pieces
23. he shall not spare {&waw&} and there shall not be found
in its shattering a shard for taking fire from the hearth or to
draw water
24. from the cistern. (PP)

25. (15) Because thus says YHWH {&adonay&} the Holy One of
Israel in repentance and rest you will be saved, in quietness
and trust
26. shall be your might but you did not will them. (16)
But you say, no but upon horses we will flee, therefore you
shall flee,
27. and you say upon the swift we will ride,
therefore the ones pursuing you shall be swift. (17) One
thousand at the rebuke of one, and from the presence [m..of the
rebuke]
28. of five you shall flee until your remainder is as a
beacon on the top of the mountain and as an ensign upon a hill.
(18) and therefore
29. YHWH will wait to be merciful to you therefore he is on
high for the showing of your mercy because YHWH is a God of
judgement
30. blessed are all those who wait for him. (19) Because
people shall dwell in Zion and in Jerusalem, you shall never weep
31 again, He [YHWH] will be exceedingly gracious to you, to
the voice of your cry when He shall hear it he will answer you.
(20) When the Lord gives to you

Column XXV Isaiah 30:20 to 31:4

1. (Continue 30:20) bread of sorrows and water of
affliction yet your teachers shall not be put in a corner any
more but your eyes
2. will be seeing your teachers (21) and your ears shall
hear a word from behind you saying this
3. is the way, walk in it that you might go to the right and
that you might go to the left. (22) and you shall defile the
overlay
4. of your silver idols and the garments of your gold molten
images, you shall dispose of them like a menstruous cloth, you
will say get out!
5. to it. (23) And He shall give you rain for the seed with
which you sow the {&H&} earth and bread of the produce of the
earth
6. and it shall be stalwart and fat and [+seeded+], your cattle in that day
shall be in enlarged pastures. (24)The oxen
7. and the asses that serve the ground shall eat clean
fodder that has been winnowed with a shovel
8. and pitch fork (25) and there shall be on every high
mountain and every lifted hill streams
9. channels of water in the day {&waw&}of the exalted
slaughter when the towers fall. (26) And the light of the moon
shall be
10. like the light of the sun and the light of the sun shall
be seven times as the light of seven
11. days in the day that YHWH binds up the scattering of His
people and heals the strike of her wound. (PP)
[*]

12. (27) Behold the name of YHWH comes from afar His face
burning with a heavy burden, his lips full of
13. indignation and His tongue as a devouring fire. (28)
and His breath like a stream overflowing to dividing the neck to
sift
14. the nations with the sieve of vanity and there shall be
a bridle on their cheeks {&yod&} causing people to err. (29)
You shall have a song
15. in the night of a sanctified feast and joy of heart as
when you go with a flute to the mountain of YHWH,
16. to the rock of Israel. (30) And YHWH will cause his
voice of glory to be heard and the quieting
17. of His arm he will show with the indignation of his
anger and the flame of a devouring fire with scattering, driving
storm and hail stones.
18. (31) Because with the voice of YHWH shall the He beat
down Assyria who struck with the rod.. (32) And every passing
over of the staff which is19. appointed which YHWH will cause to lay upon him shall
be with tambourines and harps and in battles of shaking to and
fro
20. [see variations] will he
fight against them. (33) Because Tophet has been prearranged
from long ago, it is [+completely+] established also for the
king,
21. He has made it deep and wide, the pyre in it is fire and
there is much wood and the breath (nishmah) of YHWH
22. [ like] a river of brimstone sets it alight. (PP)

23. (Chapter 31:1) Woe to those going down to Egypt
for help and they lean on horses and they trust
24. on chariots because they are many and upon horsemen
because they are extremely strong and they do not lean upon the
Holy one
25. of Israel and they do not pursue YHWH. (2) And also He
is wise and he will bring the evil
26. and not turn away his words and he will rise against the
house of the evil doers and against the help of the workers of
iniquity.
27. (3) And the Egyptians are men and not God and their
horses are flesh and not spirit.
28. and YHWH will stretch out his hand and the helper shall
fall and he who is helped shall fall down and all of them
together will be consumed. (PP)

29. (4) Because thus has YHWH spoken to me Like as when
{&the&} the lion and the lion cub roar on the prey
30. when a contingent of shepherds {&waw&} are called
against him he will not be afraid of their voices, or from their
crowd noise will not
31. [+be afraid+] [m..humble
himself,] so shall YHWH of Hosts come down to fight upon Mount
Zion and upon her hill.

Column XXVI Isaiah 31:5 to 33:1

1. (Chapter 31:5) As birds flying so will YHWH of
Hosts defend on Jerusalem, defending
2. and delivering and passing over (pesach) and bringing
escape. (6) Return to him to whom they have been in profound
revolt
3. even the children of Israel. (PP)

4. (7) For in that day each man shall reject the idols of
silver and his idols of gold
5. which their hands have made for them as a sin. (8) Then
shall Assyria fall, not of a person's sword
6. nor of a {&aleph&} man's sword IT shall devour
him and he shall flee from the sword and his chosen youths, they,
forced laborers
7. will become (9) and he shall pass over to his Rock out
of fear and his princes shall be afraid of the ensign says YHWH
8. whose own flame is in Zion and whose own furnace is in
Jerusalem. (PP)

9. (Chapter 32:1) Behold a king ought to reign in
righteousness and it is for princes to govern with justice. (2)
and then a man
10. would be a hiding place from wind and a shelter from the
tempest as streams of water in a dry place (Zion) as the shadow
of a huge rock
11. in a weary land. (3) And the eyes of those seeing
shall not turn his gaze away and the ears of the ones hearing
12. shall listen (4) and the hearts of the hasty ones
shall understand knowledge but the tongue of the stammerer shall
hasten
13. to speak clearly. (5) No longer will they call a
foolish person noble, nor
14. will they call a scoundrel generous (6) Because the
senseless will speak nonsense and with his heart he will make
wickedness to work hypocrisy
15. and to speak against YHWH to make the soul of the hungry
empty and the drink of the thirsty he will cause to diminish.
16. (7) The implements of the scoundrel are wickedness he
proposes wicked plans to obligate the poor with speeches
17. of deceitfulness, even when the needy speak of justice.
(8) But the noble proposes noble things and he
18. by his nobility shall stand. (PP)

19. (9) Let the women who have security {&aleph&} stand up.
Hear my voice O trusting daughters and give ear {&waw&}
20. to my speech. (10) Days upon years you shall be
terrorized O trusting ones because the vintage will be finished
and the harvest
21. will never come. (11) Be afraid O secure ones and have
terror O trusting ones, strip off and become nude and put a
girdle
22. [and saphadnah see qum
page on your loins (12) They shall bewail for the breasts,
for the beautiful fields
23. and for the fruitful vine, (13) Upon the land of my
people briars and thorns shall come up because it shall be on all
the houses of
24. joy in the city of gladness. (14) because the palace
shall be forsaken and the multitude of the city abandoned, Ophel,
and the watchtower
25. shall be even for dens forever, a joy for wild asses, a
pasture for herds
26. (15) Until the Spirit be poured out upon us from the
highest until the desert be as a garden spot and the garden
spot, a forest
27. is esteemed as. (16) Then shall judgement inhabit the
desert and justice will dwell in the garden spot. (17) And
28. the work of righteousness shall be peace and the service
of righteousness shall be quietness and security
29. forever. (18) And my people shall dwell in habitations
of peace and in secure neighborhoods
30. and in resting places of quietness. (19) And if it
hail coming down in the forest and the forest [m.. city] be
brought very low. (PP)

(30) Blessed are you who are sowing beside all waters sending
out the feet of the ox and the ass.
31. (Chapter 33:1) Woe to the one spoiling and you
were not spoiled and to the traitor and you were not betrayed,
when you cease

Column XXVII Isaiah 233:1 to 33:24

1. (Continue Chapter 33:1) spoiling you shall be
spoiled, when you make an end of treachery they shall be
treacherous against you. (PP)

2. (2) O YHWH be gracious to us, we have waited for you,
be their arms for the mornings, even
3. our salvation in the time of sorrows. (3) The people
retreated from the voice of the multitude, from the exaltation of
yourself they are shattered
4. even the Gentiles. (4) And your spoil will be
gathered like the gathering of the locust, as the rushing of the
locust shall he run to and fro on it. (5) Exalted is
5. YHWH because He is the Shokeyn (masc form of Shekina) in
the highest, He fills Zion with justice and righteousness. (6)
And the faithfulness of
6. of your times is strength; and the fear of YHWH is
salvation, wisdom and knowledge, that is his treasure. (PP)

7.[*] (7) Behold I see the
raging of them [m ..crying] in the out skirts, the messengers of
peace will weep bitterly (8) The highways are become desolate
8. the one passing on the path desists, he has [made
known] {broken} the covenant, he has despised the times {cities}
he does not take thought of men. (9) It mourns
9. and grows feeble even {&the&} earth, Lebanon
[waw + dot] is confounded and withered, Sharon is like a
desolate plain, and they shake off their produce10. Carmel and Bashan. (PP)

11. (10) Now will I arise says YHWH, now will I be exalted,
now will I be lifted up. (11) You shall conceive
12. chaff and bring out stubble, your own breath as fire
shall devour you. (12) and the peoples shall be burnings
13. of bones, as thorns cut down shall they be set alight in
the fire. (13) Hear distant ones that which I am doing
14. and know my power in your midst. (14) The sinners in
Zion are afraid, fear has taken hold
15. of the godless. Who among us will live with devouring
fire, who among us will live with eternal burnings. (15) The
one who walks {&waw&}
16. in righteousness, and who speaks straightly, the one
who hates the unjust gain of the extortioner, the one shaking his
hand from holding
17. a bribe, the one closing his ears from hearing of blood
and the one shutting his eyes from seeing
18. evil. (16) He shall inhabit fortresses of rocks in the
highest as his refuge, his bread shall be given to him
19. and his water is assured. (17) The king in his beauty
your eyes shall see in a vision your eyes shall see the land
20. that is far off. (18) Your heart will ponder terror,
where is the writer, where is the one who weighs, where is the
one who numbers
21. {&the&} towers . (19) You shall not see {&waw&}
a barbarous people, a people of a deep speech incomprehensible,
22. of a stammering tongue which can't be understood. (20)
Envision Zion the city of our congregating, your eyes
23. shall see Jerusalem a habitation at ease, a tent that
will not remove, and they shall not ever travel
24. even those of its tent pins and none of its
ropes shall ever be pulled apart. (21) Because even there
Majestic YHWH
25. is for us a place of doubly wide rivers and streams,
neither in them will go any oared naval ship
26. nor shall a majestic ship pass by us. (22) Because YHWH
is the one judging us and YHWH is the one governing us
27. YHWH is our king, He will save us. (23) Your ropes are
cast off they can not hold fast because [m surely}
28. with their masts they could not spread the sail,
then the time of dividing the abundant spoil, the lame will loot
the booty.
29. (24) And he who dwells there will not say, I am sick,
The people, the ones who dwell in her, the wickedness shall be
carried away. (PP)

Column XXVIII Isaiah 34:1 to 36:2

1. (Chapter 34:1) Draw near O Gentiles to hear and
listen O peoples, let the earth hear and all her fullness, the
world system and all that proceeds from it.
2. (2) Because the wrath of YHWH is upon all the Gentiles
and His anger is on all their hosts, he has completely destroyed
them, He has given them for slaughtering. (3) And their slain
ones
3. are sent out and their dead bodies send upward their
stench, and the mountains are melted with their blood. (4) The
valleys shall be broken up [m..dissolved] and all the hosts of
4. the heavens [shall fall] and the heavens shall be rolled
up like a book and all their hosts shall fall down like a leaf
falls from a vine and as one falling from
5. a fig tree. (5) because [you shall see] my sword be
drenched in heaven, behold it shall come down upon Edom and on
the people of my curse for judgement. (6) The sword
6. of YHWH is full of blood, it is made fat from the
choicest parts, from the blood of lambs, from the fat of the
inward parts of rams because
7. there is a sacrifice to YHWH in Bozrah and a great
slaughter in the land of Edom. (7) and the wild bulls shall come
down with them and the oxen with
8. the bulls and their land shall be drenched with blood and
their dust made fat. (8) Because it is the day of the vengeance
of YHWH and the year
9. of retribution for the dispute of Zion. (9) and her
rivers will be turned into pitch and her dust into brimstone and
her land shall be pitch
10. burning. (10) Night and day it shall not be put out
forever, her smoke shall go up from generation to generation and
it shall be waste forever infinitely,
11. and no one shall pass over it. (11) And the cormorant
and the hedgehog shall possess it and the owl and the raven shall
inhabit it and He shall stretch out over it
12. a line of indistinctness and shapeless stones. (12)
They shall call her nobles to the kingdom but there will be no
one there, and all of her princes shall be [..as..] nothing.
(13) and there shall come up
13. in her palaces, {&waw&} thorns, nettles and briars in
her fortresses and it shall be a dwelling for monsters and the
abode of owls.
14. (14) And the wild beasts of the deserts and the islands
shall join together there and the wild goats and they shall call
to each other, even there the screech owl will alight and find
15. a rest for themselves. (15) There shall the great owl
make her nest and lay and hatch and gather under her shadow ,
even there shall be gathered
16. vultures each to her neighbor. (PP)

17. see (16) Seek you out of
the book of YHWH and read: for not one doctrine will lack her
mate because his own mouth has commanded and his own spirit has
gathered them.
18. and his spirit will gather them. (17) And He has cast
the lot for them and His hand has divided it by line to
[..them..] {&nun . &} forever {&they shall possess it&}.[*]
19. from generation to generation they shall dwell in it.
(chapter 35:1.) The wilderness and the desert will
rejoice for them and the plain shall be glad and blossom like
the rose (2) And it shall blossom profusely, and rejoice even
with joy and singing the glory of Lebanon
20. is given to her, the majesty of Carmel and Sharon, they
shall see the glory of YHWH. the [..majesty..] of our God. (PP)

21. (3) Make strong the weak hands, and firm up the
tottering knees. (4) Say to the hasty of heart be strong and do
not be afraid behold
22. your God comes with vengeance, with recommence God
himself comes and He will save you. (5) Then the eyes of the
blind shall be opened
23. and the ears of the deaf shall be opened., (6) Then
the lame shall leap like a deer and the tongue of the dumb shall
sing, because of the breaking out in the wilderness
24. of water and streams in abundance [m..the plain] [+shall
go out+]. (7) and the dry ground will change to a muddy
pool and the thirsty ground to springs of water. In the
habitation of serpents
25. where they lie down shall be vegetation for reeds
and papyrus. (8) And a highway shall be there [there redundant]
[m..and a way] and it shall be called the way of holiness, they
shall not pass over it {&waw&} the unclean [in margin]
26. But [.. it shall be..] for them [see dots] who are walking the way, even
fools shall not wander astray. (9) There shall not be a lion or
a violent beast there, they shall not
27. go up upon it they will not be found there, but
the redeemed shall walk there (10) And the ransomed of
YHWH shall return and come to Zion with singing and joy
28. everlasting upon their heads and they shall [add. beth he] obtain gladness and joy
and grief and sighing shall flee. (PP) See [*]

29. (11) Chapter 36:1) And it was in the fourteenth
year of king Hezekiah that
Sennacherib king of Assyria came up against all the cities of
Judah,
30. the fortified ones and seized them (2) And the king of
Assyria sent Rabshakah from Lachish to Jerusalem to the king
31. Hezekiah with a [very] great army and they stood at the
ascent of the upper spring in the highway of the launderer's
field.

Column XXIX Isaiah 36:3 to 36:20

1. (36:3) And Eliakim the son of Hilkiah who was over
the household went out to him and Shevnah the scribe
2. and Joach the son of Asaph the recorder. (4) And
Rabshakah said to them, speak please
3. to Hezekiah [...king of Judah...] the great king, the
king of Assyria says What
4. is this trust where with you are trusting. (5) I am
saying (you say) -- but they are lip-service words --
5. I have counsel and might for war. Now upon whom
do you trust that you rebel against me. (6) Behold
6. you are trusting in the support of this broken cane, upon
Egypt which should he lean
7. a man on it and it will go into his hand and pierce it.
So is Pharoah king of Egypt to all who are trusting
8. in him. (7) And if you shall say to me we trust in YHWH
our God, Is it not He of Whom
9. Hezekiah has taken away his high places and [...His
altars...] and said to Judah and to Jerusalem
10. before this altar you shall worship [...in
Jerusalem...and not in M ]? (8) And now please give hostages to
my lord
11. the king of Assyria and I will give to you two thousand
horses if you are able for yourself to put riders
12. upon them (9) and how will you turn away the face of
one of the smallest of the captains from the servants of my lord
13. and you trust for yourself on Egypt for chariots and
for horsemen (10) And now have I come up with out YHWH
14. against this land to cause its destruction, YHWH said to
me Go up to this land
15. to destroy it. (11) Then said Eliakim and Shevnah and
Joach to Rabshakah, please speak to your servants
16. [margin: with us] in Aramaic because we understand it and
do not speak these words* in the ears of *[m adds "in Jewish"]
17. the men [m..people] [who are dwelling] on the wall.
(12) And Rabshakah said, is it to you and upon
18. your lord that my lord has sent me to speak these words?
Is it not to these men
19. the ones dwelling on the wall to eat their own dung and
to drink their own urine [m..water of the feet]
20. with you. (13) The Rabshakah stood {&waw&} and cried
with a great voice in Jewish and he said
21. Hear the words of the great king the king of Assyria
(14) Thus says the king of Assyria Do not let him deceive
22. you, even Hezekiah because he is not able to
deliver you. (15) And do let Hezekiah cause you to trust
23. in YHWH saying, , YHWH will most certainly deliver us
and this city will not be given into the hand of
24. the king of Assyria. (16) Do not listen to Hezekiah
because thus says the king of Assyria make with me
25. a bribe and come out to me and eat you each man of his
own vine and each man of his own fig tree and drink each man the
waters of
26. his own well. (17) until I come and take you to a
land like your own land to a land of corn
27. and new wine a land of bread and vineyards. (18)
Watch lest Hezekiah incite you saying
28. YHWH will deliver us, has any of the gods of the nations
delivered to a man his land out of the hand of the king of
Assyria
29. (19) Where are the gods of Hamath and Arphad, where are
the gods of Sephervaim and when {&have&} they delivered
30. Samaria from my hand? (20) Who among all the gods of
these lands has delivered their land

Column XXX Isaiah 36:30 to 37:24

1. (Continue 36:20) from my hand that YHWH should
deliver Jerusalem from my hand? (21) But they were silent and
answered him not a word because the commandment of
2. the king was this, saying: do not answer him. (PP)

3. (22) And Eliakim the son of Hilkiah who was over the
household and Shevnah the scribe and Joach son of Asaph the
recorder came to
4. Hezekiah with torn clothes and they told him the
words of Rabshakah. (Chapter 37:1) and it was when
Hezekiah the king heard it
5. he tore his clothes and he covered himself in sack cloth
and he went to the house of YHWH. (2) and he sent Eliakim who
was over the household
6. and Shevnah the scribe and the father of [m..eth.] the
elders of the priests covered in sack cloth to Isaiah the son of
Amots the prophet
7. (3) And they said to him, Thus says Hezekiah today is a
day of sorrow trouble and blasphemy because children have come
8. to the place of breaking forth and there is no
strength to bear. (4) Perhaps YHWH your God will hear the words
{&mem&}of Rabshakah whom he sent
9. even the king of Assyria his lord to reproach the
living God and He will rebuke on the words which YHWH your God
has heard so you will lift up {&tah&}
10. a prayer for the sake of the remnant of what is
still found here [+in this city+]. (5) and the
servants of the king {&kaph&} Hezekiah came to Isaiah

11. (6) And Isaiah said to them thus shall you say to your lord,
Thus says YHWH do not be afraid at the presence of the words
12. which you have heard with which the youths of the king
of Assyria have blasphemed me (7) Behold I will send a spirit
in him and he shall hear a report and shall return to his own
land [in margin: and I will cause him to fall by the sword in
his own land.]
13. (8) And Rabshakah returned and he found the king of
Assyria fighting against Libnah because he heard that he had
traveled from Lachish. (9) and he heard

14. about Tirhakah king of Ethiopia saying: he is coming out to
fight with you and he heard and he returned and he sent
messengers to
15. Hezekiah saying (10) Thus shall you speak to Hezekiah
king of Judah saying, do not let your God deceive you
16. who you trust in Him saying Jerusalem shall not be
given into the hand of the king of Assyria. (11) Behold you have
heard
17. that which the kings of Assyria did to the lands to
destroy them and then shall you be delivered? (12) Have
the gods delivered them
18. the nations which my fathers destroyed like Gozen or
Charan or Rezep or the children of Eden who were in Telesar?
(13) Where
19. is the king of Hamath or the king of Arphad or the king
of the city of Sephervaim, Hena and Ivah [+and Samaria+]. (PP)

20. (14) And Hezekiah took the writings from the hand of the
messengers and he read them [m..it] and he went up to the house
of YHWH and he spread them
21. {&Hezekiah&} before YHWH. (15) And Hezekiah prayed to
YHWH saying (16) YHWH of Hosts God of Israel who dwells
22. by the cherubim You are He the only God for all the
kingdoms of the earth, you have made the heavens
23. and the earth (17) Stretch out your ear YHWH and hear
open your eyes YHWH and see and hear all the words
24. of Sennacherib which he sends to reproach the living
God. (18) Surely YHWH the kings of Assyrian have made desolate
all
25. the countries [..m+ and their lands+] (19) and they
[m..he] have given their gods into the fire because they are no
gods except the works of the hands of
26. man, wood and stone and they destroyed them. (20) And
now YHWH our God save us from his hand and they shall know all
27. the kingdoms of the earth alone you are YHWH [+God+].
(PP)

28. (21) And Isaiah the son of Amots sent unto Hezekiah
saying Thus says YHWH the God of Israel of that which
29. you prayed to him [m..me] about Sennacherib king of
Assyria, (22) this is the word that YHWH is speaking about him:
She has despised you
30. and mocked after you even the virgin daughter of
Zion, the daughter of Jerusalem has shaken her head at
you. Who have you reproached
31. and blasphemed and against whom have you exalted your
voice and lifted up on high? against God the Holy One of Israel.
(24) By the hand of

Column XXXI Isaiah 37:24 to 38:8

1. (Continue 37:24) your servants you have reproached
my Lord and you said by the multitude of my chariots I will go
up to the highest mountains to the sides of
2. Lebanon and I will cut down the high cedars from the
choicest fir trees and I will go to the highest end of his
Carmel. (25) I
3. have read [m..dug] and I have drunk [foreign] water and I
have dried up with the sole of my feet all of the rivers of the
fortresses. (26) Have you not heard
4. from afar that I have done it, from ancient days that I
have formed it and now I have brought it to pass that you
should make desolate
5. fortress cities into
Nazarene [m..stripped off] heaps (27) Therefore their
inhabitants were of shortened hands,, they were dismayed and the
inhabitants [m..ashamed], were as grass of the field
6. and as green vegetation and the grass on roofs like
fields scorched anciently {&waw&} before your standing up. [m..
blasted before they are grown up.] (28) and your dwelling and
your going out and your coming in
7. I know and your rage against me (29) Because your rage
against me and your arrogance {&aleph&} is come up into my ears,
and I will put my hook into your nose and my bit
8. into your lips and I will cause you to return in the same
way in which you came. (30) And this is a sign for you, you
shall eat
9. this year of after growth and in the second year
volunteer grain and in the third year you shall sow and you shall
reap and you shall plant
10. vineyards and eat the fruit. (31) And {&those
escaped of the house of Judah&} and the thing found [m..remnant]
shall again take root downward and make fruit upward (32) because
11. From Zion [m..Jerusalem] the remnant shall go out and
the escapees from Jerusalem [m..mount Zion] The zeal of YHWH of
Hosts will do this. (PP)

12. (33) Therefore thus says YHWH to the king of Assyria, He
will not come into this city, and he will not
13. pour out a mound upon it nor shoot an arrow there, nor
come in front of it with shields. (34) By the way which he came
14. in it he shall return and into this city he shall not
come says YHWH. (35) And I will defend this city
15. to save it for my own sake and for the sake of David my
servant. (PP)

16. (36) And the angel of YHWH went out and struck in the
camp of the Assyrians, one hundred and eighty five thousand, and
they rose up in the morning
17. and behold all of them were dead corpses. (37) And
Sennacherib king of Assyria he returned and he dwelled at
Nineveh.
18. And he was worshipping in the house of Nisrok his god
and Adrammelek and Sharezer his sons struck him with the sword
19. and they escaped into the land of Ararat and Essarhaden
his son reigned in his place.. (PP)

20. (Chapter 38:1) And in those days Hezekiah was
deathly sick and Isaiah son of Amots the prophet came to him and
he said
21. to him Thus says YHWH command your house you shall die
and you shall not live (2) And Hezekiah turned
22. his face to the wall and he prayed to YHWH (3) and he
said, I pray O YHWH please remember how I have walked before you
23. in truth and with a perfect heart and the good in your
eyes I have done and Hezekiah wept a great weeping
24. (4) And the word of YHWH came to Isaiah saying: (5)
Go and you shall say to Hezekiah, Thus says YHWH
25. the God of David your father, I have heard your prayer
and I see your tears behold I am adding to
26. your days fifteen years. (6) And from the hand of the
king of Assyria I will deliver you and this city and I will
defend
27. upon this city [for my own sake and for the sake of
David my servant]. (7) And this is to you the sign from YHWH
that he will do
28. even YHWH, this thing which he has spoken. (8)
Behold I will cause the shadow to return of the degrees which
have gone down in the sundial
29. upon Achaz by the sun backward ten degrees and the sun
returned ten degrees in the degrees

Column XXXII Isaiah 38:8 to 40:2

1. (Continue 38:8) by which it had gone down. (9)
The letter of Hezekiah king of Judah during his sickness and he
revived from his sickness.
2. (10) I myself said in the cessation of my {&waw&} days I
have gone to the gates of Sheol I have been visited from the
remainder of my years. (11) I said I shall not
3. see Yah in the land of the living and I will not behold
mankind anymore with the dwellers of the world-system (12) My
generation has departed
4. and it is consumed [m..rolled up] from me like a
shepherds tent, I am writing like one weaving, my life like
pining he has cut me off from day till night you will make an end
of me.
5. (13) I babbled [m..compared] till morning, as a lion, so
will he break all my bones: from day till night you will make an
end of me.
6. (14.) Like a horse or a swallow, thus I chirped:
I mourned like a dove: my eyes hang down from on high. O Lord I
have oppression;
7. carry me over. (15.) What shall I say? he spoke to me,
and He himself has done it: [+ to me+] I shall go softly
all my years upon the bitterness
8. of soul. (16.) O Lord, upon these they live, and in all
of them is the life of my spirit: and will you take the sickness
from me, and cause me to live.
9. (17.) Behold, instead of peace it was very bitter to
me: but you loved my soul from the pit of nothingness because
you have cast
10. behind your back all my sins. (18.) For the grave can
not thank you, death can not praise you: they can not hope
11. who go down into the pit, for your truth. (19.) The
living, the living, he shall thank you, as I do today: the father
to the sons is will cause knowledge
12. to your truth. (20.) YHWH was for saving me: [+ the
living the living thank you as I do today the father to the sons
13. will cause knowledge to them to your truth, YHWH was for
saving me+] and we will sing my songs with the stringed
instruments all the days of
14. our life in the house of YHWH (21.) For Isaiah said, a
cake of figs, and rub it on the boil, {the rest of this line is
written in the margin} [and he shall live. (22.) Hezekiah had
said, What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of the
LORD?]
15. (Chapter 39:1.) At that time Merodachbaladan, the
son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent books and a present to
16. Hezekiah: for he had heard that he had was sick, and
had lived [m..regained strength]. (2.) And Hezekiah rejoiced for
them, and showed them
17. all the house of his treasures, the silver, and the
gold, and the spices, and the good oil,
18. and all the house of his implements, and all that was
found in his treasures: there was not a thing that he did not
19. show them even Hezekiah, {&waw&} in his house
and in all his government. (PP)

20. (3.) And Isaiah the prophet came to the {&H&} king
Hezekiah, and said to him, What did they say the men
21. these ones. and from where did they come to you. And
Hezekiah said, from a far land they came to me, from Babylon.
22. (4.) And he said What did they see in your house. and
Hezekiah said they saw all that is in my house there is not
23. a thing that I did not show them in my treasures. (PP)

24. (5.) And Isaiah said to Hezekiah, Hear the word of YHWH
of hosts (6.) Behold, the days are coming,
25. that all that is in your house shall be carried away,
(and that which your fathers have treasured up until this day)
to Babylon [+and they shall come+]:
26. and not a thing shall be left, says YHWH. (7.) And of
your sons who shall go out from you, who shall be born to
you they shall take
27. and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of
Babylon. (8.) And Hezekiah said to Isaiah, Good
28. [*] is the word of YHWH which you have spoken, he
explained, Because there shall be peace and truth in my days.
(PP)

29. (Chapter 40:1.) Be comforted, be comforted my
people, and your God says. (2.) Speak with the heart to
Jerusalem, and call to her,

Column XXXIII Isaiah 40:2 to 40:28

1. (Continue Chapter 40:2) that her warfare is
completed because her iniquity is pardoned: for she received
from the hand of YHWH two handfuls for all
2. her sins (3.) A voice crying in the wilderness, Prepare
the way of the YHWH, make straight in the desert
3. a highway for our God. (4.) Every valley shall be
lifted up, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low, and
the sly shall be straightened,
4. and the rough places as a valley. (5.) And the glory of
YHWH shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together:
because the mouth of
5. YHWH has spoken. (PP)

6. (6.) The voice said, Cry. And he said, What shall I cry?
All flesh is grass, and all the pleasantness of it is as the
flower of
7. the field: (7.) The grass dries, the flower droops:
[*because the spirit of YHWH blows on it:*] The text is confused
here see explanation in comments
[..he speaks..] [our God will stand forever] surely the people is
grass. [the rest is in the margin] (8.) The grass withers, the
flower fades, but the word of our God
8. (9.) upon a high hill go, go up, with good news O Zion,
raise up your voice in strength with good news; O Jerusalem,
9. lift it up, do not be afraid; say to the cities {&waw&}
of Judah, Behold your God. (10.) Behold, the Lord YHWH
10. will come in strength, and his arm shall govern for him
behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him. (11.)
Like a shepherd
11. his flock He shall feed: in his arm he shall gather
the lambs and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently
lead those who are nursing.(PP)

12. (12.) Who has measured in the hollow of his hand the
waters [+of the sea+], and balanced the heavens with [+his+] span
and contained the dust of the earth in third part, and weighed
13. in scales the mountains, and the hills in encampments
[m..a balance] (13.) Who measured out the Spirit of YHWH or
what man being his counsellor brought him knowledge.
(14.) And
14. who was His counsellor, or who brought Him
understanding, or taught him in the path of judgment, or taught
him knowledge, and the way of understanding caused Him to know.
15. (15.) Behold, the Gentiles are as a drop from a
bucket, and are thought as the fine dust of the balances,
behold, he takes up the islands as a little thing. (16.) And
Lebanon
16. has not enough to burn, and its beasts are not enough
for a burnt offering. (PP)

17. (17.) All the Gentiles are as nothing before him; and as
nonexistent they are accounted to him, and a void. (18.) And to
whom will you compare God.
18. and to what comparison will you compare to me [m..him]
(19.) The craftsman [+makes+] a melting of an idol, and the
smelter overlays it with gold, and chains
19. of silver he casts. (20.) The one being too
poor for an offering a non - rotting tree he chooses, he
seeks for himself a wise craftsman to prepare an idol,
20 that will not be shaken. (21.) Have you not known? have
you not heard? has it not been told from the start to you? have
you not understood
21. from the foundations of the earth? (22.) He is the one
sitting on the circle of the earth, and its inhabitants are as
grasshoppers; He is the one stretching out as a curtain
22. the heavens, and He spreads them out as a tent to dwell
in. (23.) He is placing commanders as nothing; he makes
the judges of the earth as a void.
23. (24.) Yet, they shall not be planted; yet, they shall
not be sown: yet, their stem shall not take root in the earth:
and he shall also ([..blow..]see
explanation) on them, and they shall dry up,
24. and the whirlwind shall bear them away like chaff. (PP)

25. (25.) To whom will you liken me, or shall I be compared?
says the Holy One. (26.) Lift up your eyes on high, and see who
has created
26. these things, the one who brings out by number their
host: he calls them all by names by exalted power and might and
strength;
27. not one is made to fail. (PP)

28. (27.) Why does Jacob speak and Israel say, My way is
hidden from YHWH and from my God my judgment
29. is passed over (28.) Have you not known? have you not
heard, that the everlasting God, YHWH, the Creator of the ends
of the earth,

Column XXXIV Isaiah 40:29 to 41:23

1. (Continue Chapter 40:28) is not tired nor weary?
there is no search for his understanding. 29 He gives strength
to the tired; and to those having no vigor, might.
2. He increases. (30.) Youths become weary, and the choice
ones shall completely stumble. (31.) But the ones who wait upon
YHWH shall renew their strength; they shall go up
3. winged as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and
they shall walk, and not faint.(PP)

4. (Chapter 41:1.) Be speechless before me, O
islands; and let the people renew strength: let them come near;
then they will speak, together for judgment.we will draw near.
(PP)
[*]
5. (2.) Who raises up the righteous man from the east,
called him to his feet, gave the Gentiles before him, and caused
him to dominate kings? he gave
6. them as the dust for his sword, and as chaff being
driven by his bow. (3.) He pursued them, and passed in peace;
the way his feet did not understand. see
note (4.) Who
7. has worked and done it, calling the generations from the
start? I YHWH am the first, and the last; I am he. (PP)
[*]

8. (5.) The islands saw it, and they were afraid; the ends
of the earth [together] [m...trembled] drew near, and arrived.
(6.) each man helped his neighbor; {&waw&}
9. to his brother he said, Be strong. (7.) And the
craftsman strengthened the smelter, and the one smoothing with
hammer him who strikes the anvil, and he says
10. It is good for soldering: and he makes it firm with
nails, so it does not move. (PP) [*]

11. (8.) But you, Israel, are my servant, Jacob I have chosen
you, the seed of Abraham my friend. (9.) I have strengthened
you
12. from the ends of the earth, and from her chief men I
have called you, and I said {&waw&} to you, You are my servant;
I have chosen you, and have not
13. rejected you. (10.) Do not be afraid; for I am with
you: do not be dismayed; for I am your God: I will strengthen
you;
14. yet, I will help you; yet, I will support you with the
right hand of my righteousness. (11.) [+Behold,+] they shall be
ashamed and humiliated all who are incensed against you and they
shall perish [m+ they shall be as nothing]
15. all the men striving with you. (PP)
.. A blank line See note.[*]

16 (12.) [Q omits = You shall seek them, and shall not find
them,} the men of your strife: those who war against you shall
be as nothing, and finished. (13.) Because I YHWH your God
17. will hold your right hand, saying to you, Fear not; I
will help you. (14.) Do not be afraid O worm Jacob
18. and friends of Israel; I will help you, says YHWH, and
your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel. (15.) Behold, I will put
you
19. as a new sharp threshing tool owning teeth: you shall
thresh the mountains, and crush them, and shall make the hills
like chaff. (16.) You shall winnow them, and the wind
20. shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter
them and you shall rejoice in YHWH, in the Holy One of Israel you
shall glory.
21. (17.) When the poor and needy seek water, and there is
none, and their tongue in thirst is parched, I YHWH will hear
them,
22. The God of Israel will not abandon them. (18.) I will
open rivers in high places, and in the midst of valleys
fountains:
23. I will make the wilderness as a pool of water, and
blighted land as springs of water. (19.) I will give in the
wilderness cedar, the acacia tree,
24. and the myrtle, and the oil tree; I will put in the
desert plain the fir tree, and the pine, together: [m..+the box
tree] (20.) So that they may see,
25. and know, and understand, {&.consider.&} and comprehend
together, that the hand of YHWH has done this, and the Holy One
of Israel
26.[*] has created it ........... (21.) Draw near your
argument, says YHWH; bring out your strongest,
27. says the King of Jacob. (22.) Let them bring them out,
and tell us that which is going to happen: let them show the first
things, as they were,
28. let them tell them that we may set them in our hearts,
and know then the latter end; or things to come. declare to us.
(23.) Tell us

Column XXXV Isaiah 41:23 to 42:17

1. (Continue Chapter 41:23 )the symbols of the latter
days, that we may know that you are gods: indeed, make either a
good thing or an evil thing,
2. and we will hear [m..that we may be amazed,] and behold
it together. (24.) Behold, you are from nothing, and your work
{m+..is worthless:] and an abomination. is he who chooses
3. you (25.) I have awakened one from the north,
and they shall arrive from [*] eastward to the sun and he shall
call upon my name: and they shall come
4. to governors as to mortar, and as the potter
treads clay. (26.) Who has told from the beginning, that we may
know?
5. and before, that we may say, He is righteous?
yet, there is none telling, yet, there is none announcing, yet,
there is none hearing
6. your words. (PP)

7. (27.) Behold the first of Zion, behold them: and to
Jerusalem I will give one who brings good tidings. (28.) And I
looked, and there was no man among them,
8. and there was no counsellor, and I asked of them, and
they returned not a word. (29.) Behold, they are nothing and
worthless their works are wind [m..+behold all of them are
vanity, their works are nothing]
9. and their idols are emptiness.{&yod&} (PP)

10. (Chapter 42:1) Behold my servant, whom I uphold;
my chosen, in whom my soul delights; I put my spirit upon
him: and his judgement
11. will go out to the Gentiles. (2.) He shall not cry,
nor shout, nor cause his voice to be heard in the outskirts.
(3.) A bruised reed
12. he shall not break, and the smoking flax he shall not
quench: for truth he shall bring out judgement. (4.) He shall
not falter nor be
13. discouraged, until he puts judgement in the earth: and the islands shall inherit his Torah. (PP)

14. (5.). Thus says The God (ha-el) and God (elohiym)
[m=YHWH,] the creator of the heavens, (and stretched them out in
the firmament) and the earth,
15. and that which comes out of it; the Giver of breath
(neshamah) to the people upon it, and spirit to those walking in
it: (6.) I [m..+YHWH] have called you. [*] It is well worth
inserting here a note referring to the most interesting notations
or symbols above the last word in this line.See the notes here.16. in righteousness, and I will hold your hand, and will
keep you, [a nazarene word]
and I will give you for a
covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles;
17. (7.) To open the blind eyes, to bring out from prison
the prisoners, and from the house of confinement those who sit
in darkness.
18. (8.) I am YHWH that is my name: and my glory will I
not give to another, neither my praise to idols. (9.) The first
things, I told and19. behold, they have come to pass, and new things I tell:
before they spring up I tell you of them.
20. (10.) Sing to YHWH a new song, and his praise from the
end of the earth, the ones going down to the sea, and the
fullness of the islands,
21. and the inhabitants of them. (11.) Let wilderness and
her cities lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar
inhabits: let the inhabitants of Sela (Petra) sing,
22. let them roar [m...cry] from the top of the mountains.
(12.) Let them set glory to YHWH and let them tell his praise in
the islands. (PP)

See notes[*]23. (13). YHWH shall go out as a mighty man, like a man of
war: he shall awaken jealousy he shall know [m...cry] even, roar;
24. against his enemies he shall prevail. (14.) I have
kept silent [+even+] from long ago; I have been speechless and
restrained myself:, like one in childbirth;
25. I will scream, I will groan and pant together. (15.) I
will lay waste mountains and hills, and all their vegetation
26. I will dry up; and I will set the rivers as islands, and
I will dry up the pools. (16.) And I will cause the blind to
walk in a way
27. that they did not know; in paths that they did not know
I will lead them: I will make darkness light before them,
28. and crooked things straight. These things will I do to
them, and will not abandon them. (17.) They shall be turned
around backward and greatly
29. ashamed who trust in idols, who say to the molten
images, you are our gods. (PP)

Column XXXVI Isaiah 42:18 to 43:20

1. (Chapter 42:18) Let the deaf hear; and cause the
blind to look, to see. (19.) Who is blind, except but my servant
or as deaf as my messenger
2. whom I sent? who is as blind as the self-confident, and
as blind as YHWH's servant? (20.) You see many things, but you
observe not; he opens
3. [*X] the ears, but he does not hear. (21.) YHWH is
pleased for his righteousness' sake; and he magnifies and makes honorable the law. (22.) But this
is
4. a people robbed and plundered; all of them are trapped
in holes, and they are hidden in prison houses: they are for
loot, and no one is delivering;
5. for plundering, and no one says, return (23.) Who among
you will listen to this? who will draw near and hear of the
latter things? (24.) Who
6. gave Jacob for plundering, and Israel to the robbers?
did not YHWH, he against whom we have sinned? for they were not
willing
7. walk in his ways, nor would they obey His Torah. (25.)
And He poured on him His furious anger, and the strength of war:
and it has set him on fire
8. round about, yet he knew not; and it burned him, yet he
did not take it to heart. (PP)

9. (Chapter 43:1) But now thus says YHWH your
creator,{&yod} Jacob, and the one who formed {&yod&} you, O
Israel, Do not be afraid: for I have redeemed you,
10. I have called you by your name; you are mine. {&aleph&}
(2.) When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and
through the rivers, they shall not flow over you:
11. when you walk through the fire, you shall not be
scorched nor shall the flame burn you. (PP)

12. (3.) For I am YHWH your God, the Holy One of Israel,
{&your redeemer&} [m.. your Savior:] I gave Egypt for your
ransom, Ethiopia and Sheba instead of you.
13. (4.) Because you were precious in my sight, you have
been glorified, and I have loved you: therefore I give the {&H&}
men for you, and people instead
14. for your soul. (5.) Do not be afraid: for I am with
you: I will bring your seed from the east, and gather you from
the west; (6.) I will say
15. to the north, Give up; and to the south, Keep not back:
bring my sons from far, and my daughters from the ends of the
earth; (7.) Everyone
16. who is called by my name: for I have created him for
my glory, I formed him; yes, I have made him. (8.). Bring him
with the blind
17. who have eyes, and the deaf who have ears. (9.) Let all
the Gentiles be gathered together, and let the people be
assembled:
18. who among them can tell this, and proclaim to us first
things? let them give their witnesses, and they will be
justified: or let them hear,
19. and let them say, this is truth. (10.) You are my
witnesses, says YHWH, and my servant whom I have chosen: so that
you may know and believe
20. me, and understand that I am he: before me there was no
God formed, nor after me will there be. (PP)

21. (11.) I, even I, am YHWH; and beside me there is
no savior. (12.) I have told, and have saved, and I have
declared, when there was no
22. alien god among you: and you are my witnesses,
says YHWH, that I am God.
(13.) also before the day was I am He; and there is none
who can deliver out of my hand:
23. I work, and who shall return it? (PP)

24. 14. Thus says YHWH LORD, your redeemer, the Holy One of
Israel; For your sake I have sent to Babylon, and have brought
down their nobles,
25. all of them, and the Chaldeans, whose song is in the
ships. (15) I am the LORD, your Holy One, the creator of
Israel, your King. (PP)
[*]

26 (16.) Thus says YHWH, who makes a roadway in the sea,
and a pathways in the mighty waters; (17.) Who brings out the
chariot and horse,
27. the army and the might together; they shall lie down
they shall not rise up: they are quenched, they are put out like
a wick. (18.) Do not cause to remember the first things,
28. nor consider the ancient things. <19.) Behold, I make a
new thing; now it shall spring up; shall you not know it? Yes
29. I will make a roadway in the wilderness, and rivers in
the Jeshimon. (20.) The beast of the field shall glorify me, the
sea monster and the owls:

Column XXXVII Isaiah 43:20 to 44:23

1. (Continue Chapter 43:20) because I give waters in
the wilderness, and rivers in Jeshimon, to give drink to my
people, and my chosen. (21.) This people have I formed for
myself; they shall speak my praise. (PP)

2. (22.) But you did not call me, Jacob; because you were
weary of me, Israel. (23.) You did not bring me a sheep for a
burnt offering; and with your sacrifices
3. you did not glorify me. [+and you did not make me a
present+] [m..I have not caused you to serve] and I have not
wearied you with incense. (24.) You did not buy for me with
silver sweet cane
4. nor with the fat of your sacrifices have you filled me,
but you have made me to serve with your sins, you have wearied me
with your iniquities. (25.) I, even I,
5. am He, the one blotting out your transgressions for my
own sake, and I will remember your sins no longer (26.) Cause
me to remember, let us judge together: explain in what manner
[*]
6. you are justified. (27.) Your first father sinned, and
your leaders transgressed against me.
(28) and I have cursed the princes of holiness, and gave
Jacob to the curse,
7. and Israel to reproaches. [*] (Chapter 44:1)
Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant; and Israel, my chosen [come,
or: in it]: (PP)
[*]

8.(2.) Thus says YHWH the one who made you, and the one who
formed you from the womb, the one helping you; Do not be afraid
Jacob, my servant; and you, Jeshurun, my chosen [come or to it].
9. (3.) because I will pour water on the thirsty, and
floods on the dry land: {&thus&} I will pour my spirit upon your
seed, and my blessing upon your offspring: (4.) And they shall
spring up as among
10. the grass, as willows by the streams of water. (5.)
This one will say, I am YHWH's; and this one shall call on the
name of Jacob; and another shall write with his hand
11. to YHWH and on the name of Israel he shall be titled
(PP)

12. (6.) Thus says YHWH the King of Israel, and his Redeemer
YHWH of hosts [+is his name]; I am the first, and I am the last;
and beside me there is no God.
13. (7.) And who is like me, who can call, and tell, and
explain for myself since I placed the people of antiquity; The
things that have happened.let them say, the things that are
coming the things to come in future Let them tell
14. to us. (8.) Do not fear, nor be afraid: have I not
from then spoken of it to you, and have told it? you are my
witnesses. Is there a God beside me? There is no god of15. stone that I know..(9.) The makers an idol all of them
are empty; and their coveted things without profit; and their
own witnesses {&they are&} they do not see and they do not know;
so that
16. they may be ashamed. (10.) Who forms a god, or casts
an idol for no profit? (11.) Behold, all his friends shall be
ashamed for the workmen are from mankind; They are gathered
together
17. all of them and they stand up they are afraid and they
are ashamed together. (12.) The iron worker works with tongs in
the coals, and fashions {&yod&} it with hammers, and works it
18. with the strength of his arms: also he is hungry, and he
has no strength: he drinks no water, and is tired. (13.) The
craftsman{&yod&}of wood stretches out his ruler; he
marks it out with a line;
19. he fits it with planes, and he marks it out with the
compass, and makes it in the shape of a man, according to human
excellence, to abide in the house, (14.) for hewing down
20. for himself cedars, and taking the cypress and the oak,
which he strengthens for himself among the trees of the forest:
he plants an ash, and the rain makes it grow. (15.) Then it
shall blaze [m..be] for man for burning: and he will take
21. from them, and warm himself; yes, he kindles it, and
bakes bread; yes, he labors it a god, and worships it; he makes
an idol, and falls down to it. (16.) Half he burns in
22. the fire; {&and with&} half of it he
eats flesh; he kindles and he warms himself he roasts
meat, and is satisfied: he warms himself, and says to his
brother, I am warm, I am before the light [m..fire:] (17.) And
with the remains he makes a god,
23. from a tree trunk {m...even his graven image:] and he
falls down to it and worships and prays to it, and says, Deliver
me; for you are my god. (18.) They do not know nor understand
24. for he has plastered their eyes, from seeing;
and their hearts, from understanding. (19.) And none
returns to his heart, nor is there knowledge nor understanding to
say [+to say+],
25. I have burned part of it in the fire; yes I have baked
bread upon the coals; I have roasted flesh, and eaten it: and
the rest I shall make an abomination? shall I fall down to the
trunk
26. of a tree? (20) He feeds on dust a deceived heart has
stretched him out, so that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say,
There is falsehood in my right hand. (PP)

27. (21.) Remember these, O Jacob and Israel; for you are my
servant: I have formed you my servant: Israel, I shall not
forget you. (22.) I have blotted out, as a cloud,
28. your transgressions, and, as a cloud, your sins: return
to me; for I have redeemed you. (PP)

29. (23.) Sing, O heavens; for YHWH has done it: shout,
under parts of the earth: break out into singing, O mountains, O
forest, and every tree there: because YHWH has redeemed

Column XXXVIII Isaiah 44:23 to 45:21

1. (Continue Chapter 44:23) [*] Jacob, and has done
wonders in Israel. Thus says YHWH, your redeemer, and he who
formed you from the womb,
2. I am YHWH maker of all things; stretching out the
heavens alone; spreading abroad the earth by myself; (25.)
Frustrating the symbols of the{& liars&}, and making those
doing divination
3. to rant; turning around the {&wise men&} backward, and
making their knowledge foolish; (26.) confirming the word of his
servant, and He rewards the counsel of his messengers; the one
saying
4. to Jerusalem, You shall be inhabited; and to the cities
of Judah, you shall be built, and your wasted places I will
raise them up: 27 saying to the deep, Be dry,
5. and I will dry up your rivers: (28.) saying of Cyrus,
he is my shepherd, and all my desires he will complete: and
saying to Jerusalem, you shall be built;
6. [*] and to the temple, your {&yod&}foundation shall be
laid. ... (Chapter 45:1) Thus says YHWH to his messiah, to
Cyrus, whose right hand I have held,
7. to bring down Gentiles before him; and I will loose the
loins of kings, to open before him the two doored gates;
and the gates shall not be shut; (2.) I
8. will go before you, and make straight: the crooked places
I will shatter the gates of brass, and chop up the bars of iron:
(3.) And I will give
9. to you the treasures of darkness, and riches of secret
places, so that you will know that I YHWH, the One calling you
by your name,
10. am the God of Israel. (4.) For the sake of Jacob my
servant, and Israel my chosen, I have called you by your {&yod&}
name: [m..+I have surnamed you,] and neither
11. did you know me. (5.) I am YHWH, and there is no one
else, and beside me there is no God I girded you, and you did
not know me: (6.) So that they will know
12. from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that
there is none beside me. I am YHWH, and there is no one else.
(7.) I am the former of the light, and creator of darkness:
13. making good {m..peace..m), and creating evil: I YHWH am doing all
these things. (PP)

14. (8.) [m..+ Drop down,] you heavens, from above, and let
the clouds pour out righteousness, speak to the earth and let it
sprout salvation, let righteousness be made to spring out [the
rest of verse 8 is not in Q "I am YHWH I created it"] (PP)

15. [ SPACE] (9.) Woe to him who argues with the One making
him. as the potsherd argues with the potsherds of the
earth. [+Woe+] to the one saying
16. to the One forming it, What are you making? or: your
work, it has no [+human+] hands? (10.) Woe to him who says to
his father, What did you beget? or to the woman,
17. [{What}] have you brought forth? (11.). Thus says YHWH
{&the Holy One of Israel,&} and his Maker, Ask me of future signs
concerning my sons, and concerning the work of
18. [{my hands.}] Command me! (12.) I made the earth, and
man upon it I created: I, even my hands, have stretched out the
heavens, and all
19. [{their host]|} have I commanded. (13.) I have raised
him up in righteousness, and I will straighten all his ways: he
shall build
20. [{my city, and the ca}]ptive he shall send out, not for
price nor reward, says YHWH of hosts. (PP)

21. (14.) [{ Thus says)] YHWH, The toil of Egypt, and
merchandise of Ethiopia and of the Sabeans, men of stature, they
shall pass over to you, and they shall be yours:
22. [{behind they shall c}]ome in fetters; they shall pass
over, and they shall fall down and worship you, and to you they
shall pray, saying, Surely God is in you; and there is no other,
23. [{and there is no other G}]od. (15.) Therefore
you are a God of hidden places, O God of Israel, the Savior.
(16.) They shall be ashamed, and also humiliated, all of them:
24. {[together}] shall go to humiliation who are
craftsmen of stone idols. (17.) Israel shall be saved by YHWH
with an everlasting salvation:
25. you shall not be ashamed nor humiliated for ever and
ever. (PP)

26. (18.) For thus says YHWH creator of the heavens; He is
the God and He formed the earth and made it; and he
27. prepared it, He did not create it void, he formed it to
be inhabited: I am YHWH; and there is no one else. (19) I
did not speak in secret,
28. in a dark place of the earth: I did not say to the seed
of Jacob in vain, Seek me; I YHWH speak
29. righteousness, telling things that are straight. (20.)
Assemble yourselves and come; draw near [m..+together], and
with him who is escaped from the Gentiles: Neither
30. do the ones setting up the wood of their idols know,
that they pray to a god that cannot save. (21.) Let them tell,
and bring them near;

Column XXXIX Isaiah 45:21 to 47:11

1. (Continue chapter 45:21) yes, let them take
counsel together: who has announced this from antiquity? who
has told it from then? Is it not I YHWH? and there is no other
2. God beside me; a righteous God and a Savior; there is
none beside me. (22.) Turn to me, and be saved, all the ends of
the earth: because
3. I am God, and there is no other. 23 By myself I have
sworn, the word of righteousness is gone out of my mouth, and
shall not return [m...+ empty,] That to me shall bow,
4. every knee and every tongue shall swear. (24.) even by
YHWH he shall say to me,
righteousness and strength: and to him shall they come;
and they shall be ashamed
5. all who are infuriated against him. (25.) In YHWH all
the seed of Israel shall be justified, and shall glorify.
(Chapter 46:1) Baal bows down, Nebo stoops,
6. their idols on beasts, and on the cattle: your load was a
heavy burden [Q+ according to their report] (2.) They stoop,
they bow down
7. together; they were not able deliver the burden, but
their souls are gone into captivity. (PP)

8. (3.) Hear me, house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the
house of Israel, who are borne by me from the womb, who are
carried by me
9. in mercies. (4.) until your old age I am He; and
until to grey hairs I will carry you: I have made, and I will
bear; and I
10. will carry, and will save you. (5.) To whom will you
liken me, and make me agree, and compare me, that I may be
likened?
11. (6.) They pour out gold out of the bag, and weigh
silver in the balance, and hire a goldsmith; and he makes it a
god: they fall down, yes, they worship it.
12. (7) They bear it upon their shoulder, they carry it,
and set it under it, and it stands; it shall not move from its
place: yes, one shall cry
13. to it, and it will not answer, and out of his trouble
will not save him [Q+weakness] (8.) Remember this, and be
manly: O transgressors take it
14. to heart, (9.) Remember the first things of ancient
time: for I am God, and there is no one else; I am God, and
there is no one like me, (10.) Telling
15. the end from the beginning, and from antiquity the
things that are not done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I
will do all my pleasure:
16. (11.) Calling a bird of prey from the east the man of
my counsel from afar yes, I have spoken it, I will also bring
it to pass; I have formed it,
17. Yes I will do it. (PP)

18. (12.) Listen to me, you bullheaded, who are far from
righteousness: (13.) I bring near my righteousness; it shall
not be far off, and my salvation
19. shall not lag behind: and I will place salvation in
Zion for Israel my glory. (PP)

20. (Chapter 47:1) Come down, and sit upon the dust, O
virgin daughter of Babylon, sit on the earth: there is no
throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for
21. you shall no longer be called soft and dainty. (2.)
Take the millstones, and grind meal: roll back the veils, make
bare
22. the skirt, uncover the thigh, pass over the rivers.
(3.) Your nakedness shall be uncovered, your reproach also
shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and neither
23. will I meet you as a man. (4.) Our Redeemer,
YHWH of hosts is his name, the Holy One of Israel. (5.) Sit
mute, and go {&waw&}
24. into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for you
shall no more be called, The Mistress of Kingdoms. (6.) I was
angry with my people,
25. and I have polluted my inheritance, and gave them into
your hand: you showed them no mercy; on the elderly you heavily laid your yoke ( See 9:2 for the
importance of this word.)
26. greatly. (7.). And you said, I shall be a heroine
forever: you did not take these things to your heart, neither
did you remember
27. the latter end of it. (8.) And now hear this, O
voluptuous, who dwells securely, who says in your heart, I am,
and there is no one
28. else; I shall not sit as a widow, neither shall I see
[m...know] bereavement:{&waw&} (9.) But these two things shall
come to you in a moment in one day,
29. bereavement and widowhood: in their completeness they
shall come upon you for the multitude of your witchcraft, and
for the great abundance of your enchantments. 10 For you have
trusted
30. in your wickedness: you have said, No one sees me.
Your wisdom and your knowledge has turned you around; and you
have said in your heart, I am,
31. and there is no one else beside me. (11.) And evil
shall come upon you; you shall not know from her origin, and
disaster shall fall upon you; you shall not be able to cover it

Column XL Isaiah 47:11 to 49:4

1. (Continue Chapter 47:11) and holocaust shall come
upon you suddenly, and you shall not know. (12.) Stand {&waw&}
please with your enchantments, and with the multitude of your
witchcraft, in which you toiled
2. from your youth; [+until
today+] [Q omits the rest "if it be that you shall be able
to profit, if it be that you may prevail."] (13.) [not in Q "you
are wearied"] in the multitude of your counsels. Let them stand
please, and let them save you, the astrologers, those seeing
visions in stars,
3. the predictors of monthly knowledge, from these things
that shall come on you. (14.) Behold, they shall be like chaff;
the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver their souls
4. from the hand of the flame: there shall not be a coal
to warm them, nor a light to sit opposite it. (15.)
Thus shall they be to you with whom you have labored your
merchants from your youth:
5. each man to his passing, they shall wander astray; none
shall save you. (PP)

6. (Chapter 48:1) Hear this, O house of Jacob, who
are called by the name of Israel, and of the waters of Judah you
came out , who swear by the name of
7. YHWH and in the God of Israel you remember, not in truth,
nor in righteousness. (2.) because from the holy city they are
called, and upon
8. the God of Israel they lean; YHWH of Hosts is his name.
(3.) The beginning things from then I have told them and from my
mouth they have gone out,
9. and I declared them; I did them suddenly, and they came
to pass. (4.) On account of that {&.....&} I knew that you are hard, and
your neck is an iron sinew, [+h]
10. and your brow brass; (5.) I told you, from then, before
it came I declared it to you: lest you should say, My idol has
done them,
11. and my graven image, and my molten image, commanded
them. (6.) You heard, all of this and have you not told them ? I
have caused you to hear new things from this time,
12. even Nazareth, which you
did not know. (7.) They are created now, and not from then;
and before the day you did not hear of them; lest you should
say, Behold,
13. I already knew them. (8.) And also, you did not
hear; also, you did not know; also your ear was not open from
then: for I knew that
14. you would be very treacherous and were called a
transgressor from the womb. (9.). For the sake of my name I will
put afar off my anger, and I will restrain my praise for you, so
as not to
15. cut you off. (10.) Behold, I have refined you, but not
with silver; [Q = when I showed mercy
to you] [m = I have chosen you] in the furnace of affliction.
(11.) For my own sake, even for my own sake,
16. I will do it: {&because&} how can I profane it
[m..+name]? and I will not give my glory to another. (PP)

17. (12.) Listen to this, Jacob and Israel, my called; I
am he; I am the first, even I am the last. (13.) Yes. My hand
also has laid the foundation of
18. the earth, and my right hand has spanned the heavens: I
call to them, they stand up together. (14.) All of them gather
together and they hear;
19. who is among them and has declared these things? YHWH
loved him: he will do my desires on {&waw&} Babylon, and
his arm shall be on the Chaldeans. (15.) I, even I,
20. have spoken; yes, I have called him: I have
brought him, and he shall make his way prosperous. (16.) Draw
near to me, [+erasure+] hear this;
21. I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from
the time that it was, I was there: and now the Lord YHWH, and
his Spirit, has sent me. [Read my comments on this important verse](PP)
[*]

22. (17) Thus says YHWH your Redeemer, the Holy One of
Israel; I am YHWH your God your teacher for profit,
23. [Aramaic] the
One who leads you by the way that you should go in it. (18.) And
you did not listen to my commandments! then would your peace be
as a river, and your righteousness
24. as the waves of the sea: (19.) Your seed also would
have been as the sand, and the offspring like the gravel of it;
their name should not have been cut off nor destroyed.from
before me. (PP)
[*]

25. (20.) Go out of Babylon, flee from the Chaldeans, with a
voice of singing declare it, tell this [m..+let it go out+] to the end of the
earth;
26. say, The LORD has redeemed his servant Jacob. (21.) And
they did not thirst in the deserts when he led them : he
caused the waters [Q= to gush out] [m.. to flow out] from the
rock for them:
27. he split the rock, and the waters gushed out. (22.)
There is no peace, says YHWH, for the wicked. (PP)
[*]

28. (Chapter 49:1) Hear me, O islands, and listen
peoples, from afar; YHWH called me from the womb; from my
mother's belly
29. He caused my name to be remembered. (2.) And he has
put my mouth {&as&} a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand He
hid me, and made me [+a lamed-kaph overwrite+] as a polished
arrow; [partial erased "be'ash"]
30. in his quiver he hid me; (3.) And He said to me, You
are my servant Israel, in whom I will be glorified. (PP)
[*]

31. (4.) Then I said, for emptiness I have toiled, my
strength for a void and a vapor I have spent surely my judgment
is with YHWH and my work

Column XLI Isaiah 49:4 to 50:1

1.[*] (Continue Chapter 49:4) with my God. (5.) And
now, says YHWH who formed you from the womb to serve him, to
return Jacob to him,
2. and to gather Israel to him, and I shall be glorious in
the eyes of YHWH, and my God shall be my strength. (6.) And he
said, Is it a light thing from your being to me
3. a servant to {&waw&} raise up the tribes of Israel
[m,,Jacob,] and to restore the Nazarenes of Jacob [m..Israel]: I
will also give you for a light to the Gentiles, to be
4. my salvation {Yeshua] to the end of the earth. (PP)

5. [*] (7.). Thus says the Lord YHWH your Redeemer of Israel,
and his Holy One, to those despising his soul, to
him who the nation counts an abomination, to a servant of rulers,
6. Kings shall see and arise, princes shall worship, for
the sake of YHWH who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel, shall
choose you. (PP)
[*]
7. (8.) Thus says YHWH, In an excellent time have I heard
you, and in a day of salvation [Yeshua] I helped you: and I
will {&dot&} preserve [make Nazarene]
you, and I will give you for a covenant of
8. the people, to raise up the earth, to cause them to
inherit heritages of desolation; (9.) saying to the prisoners,
Go out; to those who are in darkness, reveal yourselves.
9. upon [+all+] the mountains [m..roadways] they shall feed,
and in all the high places of their pastures. (10.) They shall
not hunger nor thirst; neither shall it strike them the heat
10. nor the sun : for he has mercy on them shall lead them,
and onto the springs of water he guides them. (11.) And I
will set all my mountains as a roadway [+u-mes a redundancy],
11. and my highways shall be exalted. (12.) Behold, these
shall come from far: and behold, these from the north and west;
and these from the land
12. of China [m..Sinim].
(13.). Sing, O heavens; and rejoice, O earth; and break out
into singing, O mountains: because YHWH has comforted his
people,
13. and on the afflicted He will have mercy. (PP)

14. (14.) But Zion said, YHWH has forsaken me, and my Lord
{&my God&} has forgotten me. (15.) Can a woman forget her
sucking child, from having mercy on the son of her womb?
15. also they can forget, but I will not forget. (16.)
Behold, I have inscribed you upon the hands; your walls
16. are before me continually. (17.) Your sons shall
hurry; your destroyers and your desolators shall go out from
you. (18.) [Lift up - misspelled] your eyes round about,
17. and see all of them are gathered together, and come to
you. As I live, says YHWH, all of them as an ornament you shall
wear
18. and bind them on as like a bride (19.) because your
waste and your desolate places, and your destroyed earth, even
now shall be too narrow
19. for the inhabitants, and they will be far off the ones
who swallowed you (20.) Yet they shall say in your ears
even the children of your bereavement, The place is too
narrow for me: bring
20. to me a place where I may dwell. (21.) Then
shall you say in your heart, Who has borne me these, seeing I am
bereaved and I am barren, a captive,
21. turned aside and who raised these? Behold, I was left a
remnant by myself; these, where were they? (PP)

22. (22.) because YHWH [m..+Lord God+] [+commands+] saying
, Behold, I will lift up my hand to the Gentiles, and to the
nations I will raise up my ensign: and they shall bring
23. your sons in their bosom, and your daughters shall be
carried upon their shoulders. (23.) And there shall be kings as
your guardians, and their queens your nurses:
24. they shall worship you with their faces to the earth,
and lick the dust of your feet; and you shall know that I am
YHWH: for they shall not be ashamed
25.[*] who wait for me. (24.) Shall that which is taken be
taken from the mighty, or the terrorist's captive be delivered?
(25.) Because thus says YHWH,
26. Also that taken by the mighty shall be taken, and the
captives of the terrorist shall be delivered: for I will strive
with him who strives{&yod&} with you, and
27. I will save your sons. (26.) And I will feed those
oppressing you with their flesh; and as in fresh grape juice
they shall be drunk with their blood and they shall
know
28. even all flesh that I YHWH am your Savior and
your Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob. (PP)
[*]

(Chapter 50:1) Thus says YHWH, Where is the book of
your mother's divorce-covenant, whom I have sent away? or who is
it from my creditors whom

Column XLII Isaiah 50:1 to 51:13

1. (Continue Chapter 50:1) I have sold you to him?
Behold, for your iniquities you have been sold, and for your
transgressions is your mother sent {&waw&} away. (2.)
Wherefore,
2. when I came, was there no man? when I called, there was
no one to answer? Is my hand extremely shortened from ransom or
is there no strength in me
3. to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I set
rivers as a wilderness: their fish smell bad, from lack of water
4. and they die of thirst (3.) I dress the heavens with
darkness, and I make sackcloth as their covering. (PP)

5. (4.). The Lord YHWH gave me the tongue of the learned, to
know to help the weary with words: he wakens me morning by
morning, he wakens
6. my ear to hear as the learned. (5.) The Lord [+God+]
[m..YHWH] has opened my ear, and I did not rebel backward neither
7. did I turn away. (6.) I gave my back to the strikers,
and my cheeks to those [+beating with
iron+] my face [m..plucking hair] I did not hide from
disgraces and spitting. (7.) For the Lord
8. YHWH will help me; therefore I am not humiliated:
therefore have I set my face like flints, and I know I shall not
be ashamed. (8) He is near
9. the one justifying me; who will strive with me? let us
stand together: who is the lord of my judgement let him draw
near to me. (9.) Behold, the Lord YHWH
10. will help me; who is he who shall do evil to me? behold,
all of them shall wear out as a garment; a moth shall eat them.
(10.). Who is among you who fears YHWH,
11. who hears the voice of his servant, who walks in
darkness, and has no brightness to him? he trusts in the name of
YHWH, and leans upon his God.
12. (11.) Behold, all you kindlers of fire, surrounders
with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks
that you have lit. from my hand this is
13. that which is for you: to sorrow you shall lie down. (PP)

14. (Chapter 51:1) Listen to me, pursuers of
righteousness, seekers of YHWH: look to the rock from
which you are hewn, and to the hole of the pit from
which you were dug.
15. (2 ) Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who bore
you: for I called him singly, and [+made him fruitful], [m..I
blessed him] and multiplied him.
16. (3.) For YHWH shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all
her waste places; and he will set her wilderness like Eden, and
her desert like the garden of YHWH; joy
17. and gladness shall be found in her, thanksgiving, and
the sound of music. [+and sorrow and mourning shall flee+]. (PP)

18. (4.). Draw near to me, my people; and to me, my nation
give ear: for a Torah shall go out from me, and I will stir up my
judgment for a light of the people.
19. (5.). My righteousness is near; my salvation is gone
out, and my arms shall judge the nations; the islands shall wait
for me, and on my arm they shall hope. (6.) Lift up to the
heavens,
20. your eyes and look upon the earth beneath {+and see who
created this+] [these following
words in the M text do not appear in Q "for the heavens
shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a
garment,"] (PP)

21. and her inhabitants like this shall die and my salvation
shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be cast down.
(PP)
[*]

22. (7.) Hear me, you knowers of righteousness, people in
whose heart is my Torah; fear not the reproach of men, and from
their revilings {&mem&} do not be downcast. (8.) because like
a garment
23. a moth shall eat them, and the worm shall eat them like
wool: and my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation
from generation to generations. (PP)

24. (9.). Awake, awake, put on strength, O arm of YHWH;
awake, as in the days of antiquity, in the generations of the
ages; are you not the one who chopped up
25. the monster-Rahab, and wounded the sea monster? (10.)
Are you not he who dried the sea, the waters of the great abyss;
the one who put [+in+] the depths of the sea
26 a way for the [+dispersed+] [m..redeemed] to pass over?
[+a word erased+] (11.) Therefore the ransomed of YHWH
shall return, and come with singing to Zion; and everlasting joy
shall be upon their heads
27. they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and
sighing shall flee. (PP)

28. (12.) I, even I, am he who comforts
you:{&scratch out&} who are you, that you should be
afraid of a man who will shall die, and of the son of man who
shall be given as grass; (13.) And you forget
29. [+eth+] YHWH your maker, who has stretched out the
heavens, and He founded the earth; and you fear continually
every day from the face of the fury of the oppressor,

Column XLIII Isaiah 51:13 to 52:12

1. (Continue Chapter 51:13) as if he is preparing to
destroy; and where is the fury of the oppressor? (PP)

2. (14.) The [+sorrowing one+] [m..captive] is anxious to be
loosed, so as not to die in the pit, nor that his bread should
fail. (PP)

3. (15.) I am YHWH your God, who divided the sea, whose
waves roared: YHWH of hosts is his name. (16.) And I have put
4. my words in your mouth, and I covered you in the shadow
of my hand, so I may plant the heavens, and found the earth, and
say to Zion, my people
5. you are. (PP)
[*]

6. (17.). Awake, awake, stand up, Jerusalem, who has drunk
from the hand of YHWH the cup of his fury;
7. the dregs of the cup of trembling you drank, and wrung
them out. (18.) There is no guide for you from all the sons
she bore;
8. nor is there any who takes her by the hand of all the
sons whom she has brought up. (19.) These two things are called
to you who will be sorry for you?
9. desolation, and destruction, and famine, and the {&the&}
sword: who shall comfort you? (20.) Your sons have fainted,
they lie at the head of all
10. the out skirts, as a wild bull in a net:{&waw&} full of
the fury of YHWH, the rebuke of your God. (21.) Therefore hear
please
11. this, O afflicted, drunk, but not with wine: (22.) Thus
says your Lord YHWH, your God who strives for his people,
12. Behold, [yod] I have taken out of your hand the cup of
trembling, even the dregs of the cup of my fury; you shall not
anymore
13. drink of it again. (23.) But I put it into the hand of
those afflicting you [+and those making you bow down+]; who said
to your soul, Bow down,
14. and we will walk over you: and you put as the ground
your back, and as the street to those padding over. (Chapter
52:1) Awake, awake; dress in
15. your strength, {&O Zion;&} dress in your beautiful
garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for no more he will come
16. into you the uncircumcised and the unclean. (2.) Shake
yourself from the dust; arise, and sit down, O Jerusalem: loose
yourself from the bands of
17. your neck, O captive daughter of Zion. (3.) For thus
says YHWH, you have sold yourselves for nothing; and not
18. with silver will you be redeemed (4.) For thus says
[m..+the Lord] YHWH My people went down in the beginning into
Egypt to sojourn
19. there; and the Assyrian oppressed without cause. (5.)
And now , what is there to me here, says YHWH, that my people are
taken
20. freely they rule over them and they howl says [?]
[m=YHWH] and my name is blasphemed continually every day.
Therefore my people shall know
21. my name in that day that I am he who speaks: behold,
it is I. (PP)
[*]

22. (7.) How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him
who brings good tidings, who brings good tidings of peace; who
publishes good, who publishes
23. salvation; the one saying to Zion, Your God reigns!
(8.) The sound, your watchmen shall lift up the voice; together
they shall sing:
24. for they shall see eye to eye, when YHWH shall restore
Zion [+in mercies+]. (9.) Break out, sing together,
25. waste places of Jerusalem: because YHWH has comforted
his people, he has redeemed Jerusalem. (10.) YHWH has made bare
26. his holy arm in the eyes of all the Gentiles; and all
the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of
27. our God. (11.) Turn away, turn away, go out from
there, touch no unclean thing; go out of the midst of her;
28, be clean, you who bear the vessels of YHWH. (12.) For
you shall not go out hurriedly, nor go by flight:
29. for YHWH will go before you; and your gatherer is the
God of Israel. [+The God of
30. all the earth He shall be called.+]

Column XLIV Isaiah 52:13 to 54:4

1. (Chapter 52:13.) Behold, my servant shall deal
prudently, he shall be exalted and lifted up, and be very high
(14.) as those who were astonished
2. at him are many; because his visage was marred more than
any man, and his form more than the sons of men:
3. (15.) So shall he startle many nations; the kings shall
shut their mouths at him: for that which
4. was not told to them shall they see; and that which they
had not heard shall they consider. (PP)
[*]

5. (Chapter 53:1) Who has believed our report and the
arm of YHWH to whom has it been revealed (2) And he shall come
up like a suckling before us
6. and as a root from dry ground there is no form to
him and no beauty to him and in his being seen and
there is no appearance
7. that we should desire him. (3) He is despised and
rejected of men, a man of sorrows and knowing grief
8. and as though hiding faces from him he was despised and
we did not esteem him. (4) Surely our griefs he
9. is bearing and our sorrows he carried them and we
esteemed him beaten and struck by God
[There is a scribal thumb
print over lines 10 to 12.]
10. and afflicted. (5) and he is wounded for our
transgressions, and crushed for our iniquities, the correction
11. of our peace was upon him and by his wounds he
has healed us. (6) All of us like sheep have wandered each man
to his own way
12. we have turned and YHWH has caused to light on him the
iniquity of all of us (7) He was oppressed and he was afflicted
and he did not
13. open his mouth, as a lamb to the slaughter he is brought
and as a ewe before her shearers is made dumb he did not open
14. his mouth. (8) From prison and from judgement he was
taken and his generation who shall discuss it because he
was cut off from the land of
15. the living. Because from the transgressions of his
people a wound was to him (PP)

16. (9) And they gave wicked ones to be his grave and
[a scribbled word probably accusative sign "eth"] rich ones in
his death
17. although he worked no violence neither deceit in his
mouth (10) And YHWH was pleased to crush him and He has caused
him grief. (PP)

18. If you will appoint his soul a sin offering he will
see his seed and he will lengthen his days and the
pleasure of YHWH {&yod?&]
19. in his hand will advance. (11) Of the toil of his
soul he shall see {+light+} and he shall be satisfied and by his
knowledge shall he make righteous
20. even my righteous servant for many and their
iniquities he will bear. (12) Therefore I will apportion to him
among the great ones
21. and with the mighty ones he shall divide the spoil
because he laid bare to death his soul and with the transgressors
22. he was numbered, and he, the sins of many, he bore, and
for their transgressions he entreated.(PP)

23. (Chapter 54:1) Sing, O barren, and you who did
not bear; break out into singing, and cry aloud, you who did not
travail for more
24. are the sons of the desolate than the sons of the
married wife, says YHWH. (2.) Enlarge the place of your tent,
25. and the curtains of your habitations let them stretch
out: spare not, lengthen your cords, and your stakes;
26. strengthen (3.) For on the right hand and on the left
you shall break out; and your seed shall inherit the Gentiles,
and the cities
27. made desolate cities shall be inhabited. (4.) Fear
not; for you shall not be ashamed: and {&waw&}do not be
confounded; for you shall not
28. be {&yod&}embarrassed for you shall forget the shame of your
youth, and the reproach of your widowhood you shall not remember

Column XLV Isaiah 54:4 to 55:8

1. (Continue Chapter 54:4) any more. (5.) For your
husband is your Maker; YHWH of hosts is his name; and your
Redeemer the Holy One of
2. Israel; He shall be called The God of the whole earth.
(6.) because as a woman forsaken and grieved
3. in spirit, YHWH has called you, and a wife of youth,
because you were refused, says [+YHWH+] your God.
4. (7.) For a small moment have I forsaken you; but with
great mercies will I gather you. (8.) In overflowing wrath
5. I hid my face from you for a moment; but with everlasting
kindness will I have mercy on you, says your Redeemer.
6. YHWH (9.) this is as the waters of Noah to me: which I
have sworn that the waters of Noah go over no more
7. the earth; so have I sworn that I would not be wrathful
with you any more, nor rebuke you. (10.) For the mountains
8. shall depart, and the hills {&H&} be shaken; but my
kindness shall not depart from you, neither shall the covenant of
9. my peace be removed, says he who has mercy on you
YHWH.(PP)

10. (11.). O afflicted, tossed with a whirlwind, and not
comforted, behold, I will lay your stones with colors, and
{&your&} foundations [*]
11. with sapphires. (12.) And I will set your window
lights of agates, waw&} and your gates of gem {&waw&}
stones, and all
12. your borders of desirable stones. (13.) And all your
sons shall be taught of YHWH; and great shall be the peace of
your sons {&waw&}.
13. (14.) In righteousness shall you be established: you
shall be far from oppression; for you shall not fear: and from
terror; for
14. it shall not come near you. (15.) Behold, they shall
surely be gathered, with no help from me: whosoever shall gather
together against you
15. shall fall. (16.) Behold, I have created {&aleph&} the
craftsman who blows the coals in the fire, and who brings out
{&waw&} an implement [*]
16. for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy.
(17.) No weapon that is formed against you
17. shall succeed; (PP) (Q omits the following)[M..+and
every tongue that shall rise against you in judgment you shall
condemn.]

18. This is the heritage of the servants of YHWH, and their
righteousness is from me, says YHWH. (Chapter 55:1) Ho,
19. every one thirsting, come you to the water, and he who
has no money; come, buy, without silver
20. [m..+and eat;+] and without price wine and milk. (2.)
Why do you spend money and it is not bread and your labor
21. for that which does not satisfy? Listen diligently to me,
and eat the good, and let your soul be pampered in fatness.
22. (3.) Extend your ear, and come to me: hear, and your
soul shall live; and I will make with you
23. an everlasting covenant, the faithful mercies of David.
(4.) Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people, [*]
24. a leader and commander to the people. (5.) Behold, a
nation that you do not know you shall call, and a nation that
you have not known
25. shall run to you because of YHWH your God, and {&for&}
the Holy One of Israel; for he has glorified you. (PP)

26. (6.). Seek YHWH while he may be found, call upon him
while he is near: (7.) Let the wicked abandon his way,
27. and the evil man his thoughts: and let him return to
YHWH, and he will have mercy on him; and to our God,
28. for he will excuse greatly. (8.) For my thoughts are
not your thoughts, nor are your ways

Column XLVI Isaiah 55:8 to 57:2

1. (Continue Chapter 55:8) my ways, says YHWH. (9.)
For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so they are higher,
my ways
2. than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. (10.)
For as it comes down,
3. the rain and the snow from heaven, and there does not
return, but drenches
4. the earth, and causes it to grow and sprout, that it may
give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:
5. (11.) So shall my word be that goes out of my mouth: it
shall not return to me void, but it shall do
6. that which I please, and it shall succeed in that which I
sent it. (12.) For with joy
7. you shall go out, you shall walk in peace: the mountains
and the hills shall break out before you singing,
8. and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.
(13.) Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and
instead of
9. the brier shall come up the myrtle tree: and it shall be
to YHWH for a sign, [m..name] for an everlasting name [m..sign]
that shall not be cut off. (PP)
[*}

10. (Chapter 56:1) [+Because+] thus says YHWH, Keep
judgment, and do justice: for my salvation is near
11. to come, and my righteousness to be revealed. (2.)
Blessed is the man who does this, 12. and the son of man who
seizes it; who keeps the sabbath from corrupting it, and keeps
his hand from doing all evil.(PP)

13. (3.) Neither shall the son of an alien, who has joined
himself to YHWH say YHWH has completely separated me from
14. his people: neither let the eunuch say, Behold, I am a
dry tree. (4.) Because thus says YHWH
15. to the eunuchs who keep my sabbaths, and choose the
things that please me, and take hold of
16. my covenant; (5.) And I will give to them in my house
and within my walls [yad va-shem] a place and a name better than
of sons and of daughters:
17. I will give them an everlasting name, that will not be
cut off. (6.) Also the sons of the alien, who join themselves
to YHWH,
18. to be his servants and to [+bless+] [m..love] keeping
the sabbath from corrupting it,
19. and seizes my covenant; (7.) and I will bring them to
my holy mountain, and make them joyful in my house of
20. prayer: their burnt offerings and their sacrifices they
will offer willingly on my altar; for my house a house
21. of prayer shall be called for all the nations. (8.)
Thus says the Lord YHWH who gathers the outcasts of
Israel, Yet
22. will I gather others to him, to those who are
now gathered to him. (9.). All you beasts of the field
with him, eat, and all you beasts in the forest. (PP)
[*]

23. (10.) His watchmen are blind: all of them do not know,
they are all dumb dogs, they are not able to bark; they
24. sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber. (11.) and they
are dogs of evil souls who do not know to be sated,
25. and they are shepherds who do not know to understand:
they all turn to their own way, each man for his own profit,
from his end.
26. (12.) Come you, we will take wine, and we will be
sated with strong drink; and tomorrow shall be like this day,
and very much {&greater&}. (PP)

27. (Chapter 57:1) The righteous perishes, and no man
takes it to heart: and merciful men are gathered away, no one
understands
28. that from the presence of evil the righteous is gathered
away. (2.) He shall go into peace: they shall rest on their
beds,

Column XLVII Isaiah 57:2 to 57:6

1. (Continue Chapter 57:2) walking in their
uprightness. (PP)

2. (3.) But draw near here, you sons of the sorceress, the
seed of the adulterer and the one whoring. (4.) Against whom do
you go softly? against whom do you make a wide
3. mouth, and lengthen the tongue? are you not children
{&waw&} of transgression, a seed of falsehood, (5.) Heating
yourselves with idols under every
4. green tree, slaughtering the children in the streams,
under the [sp. cliffs] of the rocks (6.) In those portions of
the river they are your portion [+there,+]
5. they are your lot: even to them you poured a drink
offering, you have offered a burnt offering on an altar. Am I
comforted in these? (7.) Upon a mountain
6. high and and lifted up you set your bed: even there you
went up to sacrifice sacrifices. (8.) Behind the doors and the
door posts
7. you set up your memorial: for you revealed yourself to
another than me, and are gone up; you have enlarged your bed, and
you made a covenant [+for yourself from them+] {m..with them;]
8. loving their bed by means of a vision. (9.) and you went
to the king with oil, and increased your perfumes, and you sent
your envoys
9. far off, and you lowered yourself as far as Sheol. (10.)
in the greatness of your way you are wearied; But you did not
say so, having no hope in the life you found by your own
hand; [*]
10. therefore you were not weakened. (11.) And who
worries you and you fear me because you have lied, and have not
remembered me, nor set
11. these things to your heart? have I not been mute for
ages, and you fear me not? (12.) I will tell your righteousness,
12. and your works; for your {+group+} they shall not profit
you. (13.). When you cry, let your group deliver you; but the
wind shall carry all of them {M ends vs 12 here]
13. and they shall be taken as a vapor. (13.). but he who
puts his trust in me shall inherit the land, and shall possess my
holy mountain; (PP)

14. (14.) And he shall say, Cast up, cast up, [+the thing
cast up+] prepare the way, raise up the stumblingblock from the
way of my people. (15.) because thus
15. says the Father of exaltation and the lifted up One who
inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy; He inhabits the high and
holy place, with the contrite and lowly
16. spirit, to make alive the spirit of the lowly, and to
make alive the heart of the contrite. (16) For I will not
strive for ever, nor will I everlastingly be angry because
17. the spirit will faint before me, and the lives
[neshemah] I made. (17.) Because of the evil of his
covetousness I was wrathful and I struck him and I hid myself,
and was angry,
18. and he went on stubbornly in the way of his heart. (18.)
I have seen his ways, but will heal him: and make peace and
comforts to him and to his mourners.
19. (19.) I create the fruit of the lips; Peace, to him
who is far off, and to him who is near, says YHWH; and I will
heal him. (20.) But the wicked are as the sea,
20. driven because it is not able to be quiet, and they
drive out from its waters mire and clay. (21.) There is no
peace, says
21. my God, to the wicked. (PP)

22. (Chapter 58:1) Call with your throat, do not
hold back, lift up your voice like a trumpet, and tell my people
their transgression, and to the house of Jacob
23. their sins. (2.) They seek me daily, and delight to
know my ways, as a nation who was doing righteousness,
24. and judgement they did not abandon their God they ask of
me my righteous judgements they desire nearness to God. (3.).
Why have we fasted,
25. and you do not see we afflicted our soul, and you did
not know it. Behold, in the day of your fast you find pleasure,
and all your labors.
26. you press on. (4.) Behold, you fast for strife and
contention, and to strike with the fist of wickedness: you shall
not fast as you do this day to have heard on high
27. your voice. (5.) Is it like this the fast that I have
chosen. a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down
his head as a bulrush,
28. and to spread sackcloth and dust? will you call this a
fast, and an acceptable day to YHWH? (6.) Is not this the fast
which
29. I have chosen? to open the bands of wickedness, to undo
the heavy yokes, and to set the oppressed free, {&yod&} and every

Column XLVIII Isaiah 58:6 to 59:17

1. (Continue Chapter 58:6) yoke you will tear away.
(7.) Is it not to divide your bread to the hungry, and that you
bring the refugee poor {&yod&} into your house? when you see the
naked,
2. that you cover him; and that you do not hide yourself from
your own flesh? (8.). Then shall your light break out as the
dawn, and your health shall spring out speedily,
3. and your righteousness shall go before you; the glory of
YHWH shall be gathered. (9.) Then shall you call, and YHWH
shall answer; you shall shout, and he shall say,
4. Here I am. If you turn aside from the midst of you the
yoke, the pointing of the finger, and speaking evil; (10.) And
if you bring out your soul to the hungry, and the soul
5. of the afflicted you satisfy; your light shall
rise in darkness, and your gloom will be as the noontime: (11.)
And YHWH shall guide you continually, and satisfy
6. your soul in drought, and {&H&} deliver bones: and you
shall be like a drenched garden, and like a spring of water,
they do not lie.
7. even those waters. And those from you shall build
the waste places of the ages: the foundations of generation after
generations you shall raise them up; and they shall call you the
mason of the breach, The restorer of
8. paths to dwell in. (PP)
[*]

9. (13.). If you turn away your foot from the sabbath, so
as not to do your desires in my holy day; and call the
sabbath a delight, the holy {&waw&} of
10. YHWH, a glory; and shall glorify him, by not
doing your own ways, nor finding your own pleasure, nor speaking
your own words: (14 .) Then shall you delight yourself with
YHWH;
11. and I will cause you to ride upon the high places of the
earth, and feed you the heritage of Jacob your father: for the
mouth of YHWH has spoken. (PP)
[*]

12. (Chapter 59:1) Behold, YHWH'S hand is not
shortened, from saving; nor his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:
(2.) However your iniquities they are
13. as separations between you and between your God, and your
sins have hid his face from you, from hearing (3.) because
14. your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with
iniquity; [Q omits your lips have spoken lies,] your
tongue has uttered injustice. (4.) None calls for justice,
15. no one judges in faithfulness: they trust on a void, and
speak in vain; they conceive mischief, and bring out iniquity.
(5.) The eggs of an adder
16. they break open, and the spider's web they weave: the
one eating their eggs dies, and that which is crushed breaks out
into a viper. (6.) Their webs
17. shall not become garments, nor cover themselves with
their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the deed of
violence is in their hands.
18. (7.) Their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed
innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of evil; wasting
19. and destruction [+and violence+] are in their roadways.
(8.) The way of peace they know not; and there is no judgment
in their track: their paths
20. they made crooked: to them all who travel in them shall
not know peace. (9.). Therefore is judgment far from us, and it
does not reach us
21. even justice we wait for light, but behold
darkness; for brightness, but in gloom we walk. (10.) We grope
for the wall as blind, and not having
22. eyes we grope we stumble at noonday as at twilight; we
are desolate as dead men. (11.) We roar all of us like bears,
23. and like doves mourn extremely: we wait for judgment,
but there is none; for salvation, but it is far from us. (12.)
For our transgressions are multiplied
24. in your presence, and our sins answer against us:
because our transgressions are with us; and our iniquities, we
know them; (13.) They are: transgressing {&waw&} and
lying
25. against YHWH, and departing away from our God, speaking
oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart
words of falsehood. (14.)And turned away
26. backward is judgement, and righteousness stands far
off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity is not able to
enter.
27. (15.) And the truth shall be left lacking and the one
turning from evil makes himself a spoil. (PP)

28. and YHWH saw it, and it was evil in His eyes because
there was no judgment. (16.) And he saw that there was no man,
and was stunned that there was no intercessor:
29. and his own arm saved him; and his
righteousness [q+m.she] sustains him. (17.) and he put on
righteousness as a breastplate, and a helmet of salvation upon
his head;

Column XLIX Isaiah 59:17 to 61:4

1. (Continue Chapter 59:17) and he put on the
garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad with zeal as a
coat. (18.) According to their deeds, accordingly he will
repay, fury to his foes recompense to his enemies;
2. to the islands he will repay recompense. (19.) So from
the west they shall fear the name of YHWH , and from the rising
of the sun his glory. Because the enemy shall come like a
river,
3. and the Spirit of YHWH shall lift up a standard {&waw&}
against him. (20.) And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and to
those who repent of transgression in Jacob, says YHWH. (21.)And I, [m..As for me] this is my covenant
4. with them, says YHWH; My spirit that is upon you, and my
words which I have put in your mouth, shall not depart out of
your mouth, nor out of the mouth of your seed,
5. nor out of the mouth of your seed's seed, from now and
for ever.(PP)
[*]

6. (Chapter 60:1) Rise, shine; for your light is
come, the glory of YHWH is risen upon you. (2 .) For, behold,
the darkness shall cover the earth, and thick darkness the
nations but He shall arise
7. even YHWH will shine on you, and his glory upon
you shall be seen. (3.) And the Gentiles shall come to your
light, and kings to the [+announcement+] [m..brightness] of your
rising. (4.) Lift up your eyes round about, and see:
8. all of them are gathered, they come to you: your sons
come from far, and your daughters shall be nursed at your side.
(5 .) Then you shall see, and your heart will flow and be widened
because
9. because the mass of the sea shall be change for you, the
army of the Gentiles shall come to you. (6.) A multitude of
camels shall cover you, the dromedaries of Midian and Ephah; all
of them from Sheba
10. shall come: gold and incense they shall bear and they
shall preach forth the praises of YHWH. (7.) All the sheep of
Kedar shall be gathered to you, the rams of Nebaioth shall serve
you: they shall come up
11. willingly to my altar, and the house of my splendor I
will glorify. (8.) Who are these who fly as a cloud, and as the
doves to their chimney? (9.). because for me
12.. the islands will wait, and the ships of Carthage
first, to bring my sons from far, their silver and their gold
with them, to the name of YHWH your God,
13. and to the Holy One of Israel, because he glorified you.
(10.) And the sons of the alien shall build your walls, and
their kings shall minister to you: because in my wrath I caused
you to be stricken,
14. but in my will, I had mercy on you. (11.) and your
gates shall be open continually; day nor night they shall not be
shut to bring to you armies of the Gentiles, and their kings
15. will be led to you. (12.) For the nation and
kingdom that will not serve you shall perish; and those nations
{&waw&} will be completely ruined. (13.) The glory of Lebanon
[+will be given to you+]
16. and to you will come the fir, the pine, and the box tree
together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary; and the place
of my feet I will glorify. (14.)And they will come
17. to you bowing down even [+all+] the sons [scratch out word]of those who afflicted
you shall worship you the soles of your feet; all those who
despised you and they shall call you, The city of YHWH,
18. The Zion of the Holy One of Israel. (15.). Instead of
your being abandoned and hated, {&waw&} and none passed over, I
will set you an eternal exaltation, a joy from generation to
generation.
19. (16.) You shall also nurse the milk of the Gentiles,
and shall nurse the breast of kings: and you shall know that I am
YHWH your Savior and your Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.
20. (17.) Instead of brass I bring gold, and instead of
iron I bring silver, and instead of {&H&} wood brass, and instead
of stones iron:
21. and I will make your officers peace, and your oppressors
righteousness. (18.) no more violence be heard in your land,
wasting nor destruction within your borders; but you shall call
22. your walls Salvation, and your gates Praise. (19.)
The sun shall no longer be your light by day; and for brightness
[+in the night+] the moon
23. will not give light for you: YHWH shall be an
everlasting light, and your God your glory. (20.) Your sun
shall not depart nor your moon be gathered away
24. because YHWH shall be an everlasting light for you, and
the days of your mourning will be completed. (21.) and your
people shall all of them be righteous: they shall inherit the
land for ever, the Nazar 25. of the planting of {+YHWH+], the work of my hands, for
glory. (22.) A little one shall become a thousand, and a young
one a mighty nation: I am YHWH in its time
26. I will hurry it. (Chapter 61:1) The Spirit of
the Lord GOD is upon me; because YHWH has anointed me to preach
good tidings to the weak; {& he has sent me&} to bind up the
brokenhearted, to call to the captives
27. liberty, and to the imprisoned the opening of prison.
(2.) To announce the favorable year of YHWH, and the day of
vengeance for our God; to comfort all who mourn; (3.) To
appoint
28. to the mourners in Zion, to give to them beauty instead
of dust, the oil of joy instead of mourning, the garment of
praise instead of the spirit of heaviness; and they shall call
29. to them oaks of righteousness, the planting of YHWH, for
glory. (4.). And they shall build the ancient ruins, the
desolations of the beginning shall they raise, and they shall
renew

Column L Isaiah 61:4 to 63:4

1. (Continue Chapter 61:4) the ruined cities, the
desolations of generation to generation. [+they shall raise them
up+] (5.) And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and
the sons of the alien
2. shall be your farmers and your vinedressers. (6.) and
you shall be named the Priests of YHWH: and the Ministers of our
God they shall say of you
3. you shall eat the wealth of the Gentiles, and in their
glory shall you boast yourselves. (7.) In stead of your shame a
double portion; and in stead of disgrace they
shall sing
4. of their portions therefore in their land they shall
possess the double portion: everlasting joy shall be to
you. (8.) because I am YHWH
5. who loves judgment, I hate robbery for burnt offering;
and I will give their work in truth, and an everlasting covenant
I will engrave for you.
6. (9.) And their seed shall be known among the Gentiles,
and their offspring among the nations: all who see them shall
respect them,
7. because they are the seed which YHWH blesses. (PP)
[*]

8. (10.). I will greatly rejoice in YHWH, my soul shall be
joyful in my God; because he clothed me with the garments of
salvation, with the robe of righteousness
9. he wrapped me, as a bridegroom beautifies himself
like a priest, and as a bride puts on her jewels. (11.) because
as the earth puts out her branch, and as the garden
10. causes her seeds to spring up; so the YHWH God will
cause righteousness and praise to spring up in the presence of
all the Gentiles. (Chapter 62;1) For the sake of
11. Zion I will not be silent, and for Jerusalem's sake I
will not be quiet, until her righteousness goes out as
brightness, and her salvation
12. as a burning torch. (2.) And the Gentiles shall see my
[m..your] righteousness, and all kings your glory: and they
shall call you by a new name, which
13. the mouth of YHWH shall name. (3.) You shall also be a
beautiful crown in the hand of YHWH, and a royal diadem in the
hand of your God.
14. (4.) You shall no more be termed abandoned; neither
shall your land any more be termed Desolate: because you shall be
called Hephzi
15. bah, my desire is in her and your land Beulah:
married because YHWH desires you, and your land shall be
married. (5.) because as a chosen youth marries
16. a virgin, your sons will marry you: and as the bride
groom rejoices over the bride, your God will rejoice over you.
(6.). upon your walls
17. O Jerusalem I appointed watchers, all night and all day
{m+continually+m] they will not be silent. you who remember
18. YHWH, do not have silence in you, (7.) And give Him no
rest, until he establishes, until he establishes, [sic] and until He places
19. Jerusalem {&yod&} a praise in the earth. (8.) YHWH has
sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, that I
will not again give your corn to be food
20. for your enemies; nor will sons of an alien drink your
new wine, for which you have labored: (9.) Because the one
gathering it
21. shall eat it, and praise [+the name of+] YHWH; and the
ones gathering shall drink it in the courts of my holiness [+says
22. your God+]. (PP)
[*]

23. (10.). [+Pass over+] the gates; prepare the way of the
people; cast up, cast up the highway; take out the stones; [m..lift up a standard for]
[a different reading] [q = "the stroke (which) they speak
24. against the people q] (11.) Behold, YHWH has announced
to the end of the earth, Say to the daughter of Zion, Behold,
your salvation comes;
25. behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.
(12.) And they shall call them, The holy people, The redeemed of
YHWH: and to you
26. shall be called, Sought after, A city not abandoned.
(PP)

27. (Chapter 63:1) Who is this who comes from Edom,
with red dyed garments from Bozrah? this one who is glorious in
his apparel, travelling in his great strength,
28. It is I, who speaks in righteousness, mighty to save.
(2.) Why are your clothes red, and your clothing like him who
treads in a [+troop+] [m..winepress]?
29. (3.) I trod the winepress alone; (next section in M omitted in Q)
[and there was none with me of the peoples: for I will tread on
them in my anger, and trample them in my fury; and their blood
shall be sprinkled upon my garments,] and I will stain all my clothing. (4.)
because the day of vengeance is in my heart,

Column LI Isaiah 63:4 to 65:4

1. (Continue Chapter 63:4) and the year of my
redeemed is come. (5.) And I looked, and there was none to
help; and I was astonished that there was none to uphold:
therefore my own arm brought salvation to me; and my fury,
2. it supported me. (6.) And I will tread down the people
in my anger, and make them drunk in my fury, and I will bring
down their strength to the earth. (PP)
[*]

3. (7.).the kindnesses of YHWH I will remember , and the
praises of YHWH, according to all that YHWH has recompensed and
the great good to the house of Israel,
4. which he recompensed on them according to his mercies,
and according to the multitude of his kindnesses (8.) For he
said, {&resh&} surely they are my people, children who will not
lie: so he was to them
5. for a savior. (9.) In all their sorrow he had sorrow,
and the angel of his presence saved them: in his love and in his
pity he
5. redeemed them; and he bare them, and carried them from
ancient days (10.) and they
6. rebelled, and grieved his holy Spirit: therefore he was
changed
7. from them to be their enemy, and he fought against them.
(11.) and he remembered the ancient days; Moses; his people;
Where is he who brought them up from the sea with the shepherd of
8. his flock {&waw&}? where is the one putting within him
the spirit of his holiness? (12.) and Who led them by the right
hand of Moses His glorious arm dividing the water
9. before them, to make an everlasting name? (13.) leading
them through the abyss, as a horse in the wilderness, {&daleth&}
that they should not stumble? (14.) As animals in the valley
10. go down, the Spirit of YHWH caused us to rest: so did
you lead your people, to make yourself a glorious name. (15.).
Look down from heaven,
11. and see from the exaltation of your holiness and glory:
where is your zeal and your strength, the roar of your inward
parts and your mercies to me?
12. are they restrained? (16.) because you are our father,
though Abraham does not know us, and Israel does not
recognize us: you, are He
13. O YHWH, our father, our redeemer; your name is from
eternity. (17.) why YHWH have you made us to wander from your
ways, and hardened our heart from your fear?
14. Restore for your servants' sake, the tribes of your
inheritance. (18.) The people of your holiness have possessed
it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down your
sanctuary. (19.) We are yours:
15. from antiquity you never bore rule over them; they were
not called by your name. (in English Chapter 64:1). Oh
that you would rend the heavens, that you would come down, at
your presence
16. the mountains might shake. {The rest of this line is
much different from M}(2.) (As when a brush fire blazes and
the fire causes the waters to boil,)to burn a fire necessary to
make your name known to your adversaries, so that at your
presence
17. the nations might tremble (3.) When you did terrible
things we waited You came down; the mountains flowed down at
your presence. (4.) from eternity men have not heard,
18. nor envisioned, nor has seen, O God except you, what you
have made for him who waits for him. (5.) You meet with the one
rejoicing and working
19. righteousness, in your ways they remember you Behold you
are angry we have sinned against them from ancient time and we
are saved: (6.) And we are as an unclean thing,
20. all of us, and as a menstrual cloth is all our
righteousness and all of us fade as a leaf; and our iniquities,
like the wind, have taken us away. (7.) And no one calls
21. on your name, or awakens to take hold of you: because
you hide your face from us, and you are depleting us at the hand
of our iniquities. (8.) and you
22. YHWH, you are our father; we are the clay, and you our
potter; and we all are the work of your hand. (9 ) Do not be
angry, O YHWH,
23. for ages do not remember iniquity Behold, Look, please
we are all your people. (10.) Your holy cities are a
wilderness,
24. Zion is like a wilderness, Jerusalem is a desolation.
(11.) Our holy {&waw&} and beautiful house, where our fathers
praised you,
25. they are burned with fire: and all our pleasant things
are laid waste. (12.) Will you hold yourself back for these
things, O YHWH, will you keep silence and humble us
26. for ever?
[*]

27. (Chapter 65:1) I am sought of those who asked not
for me; I am found of those who did not seek me, I said, Behold
me, behold me, to a nation who was not called by my name.
28. (2.) I have spread out my hands all the day to a
rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, after
their own thoughts; (3.) the people
29. [Aramaic] [+and
they pour out an offering [with their] hands upon the stones+]
[m..that cause me to be angry continually to my face;] they
sacrifice in gardens, and burn incense on bricks (4.) Who are
dwelling

Column LII Isaiah 65:4 to 65:18.

.1. (Continue Chapter 65:4) among the graves, and
lodge among Nazarenes, who eat
swine's flesh, and broth
2. of abominable things is [+in+] their vessels; (5.)
saying, stay by yourself, don't touch [m..come near] me,
3. [m..because] I am holier than you. These are a smoke in
my nose, a fire that is kindled all day. (6.) Behold,
4. it is written before me: I will not keep silent, except
that I will recompense, even recompense into your bosom,
5. your iniquities with the iniquities of your father
together. (7.) Says YHWH, who have burned incense
6. upon the mountains, and reproached me on the hills: and
I will measure their first
7. work into their bosom. (PP)

8. (8.). Thus says YHWH, As the new wine is found in the
cluster, and they say [m..one says,]
9. do not destroy it; because a blessing is in it: thus I
will do for the sake of my servants so as not to
10. destroy them all. (9.) And I will bring out from Jacob
a seed, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains:
11. and my chosen shall inherit it, and my servants shall
inhabit there. (10.) And Sharon shall be
12. an abode of flocks, and the valley of Achor [+for+] a
resting place for the cattle, for my people who have sought me.
(PP)
[*]

13. (11.). But you are those abandoning YHWH, those who
forget my holy mountain,
14. who prepare a table for a demon, and who fill up mixed wine for Meni. (12.)
and I will assign
15. you to the sword, and all of you to slaughter will bow
down: because I called,
16. and you did not answer; I spoke, you did not listen;
and you did evil
17. in my eyes, and in that which I do not {&desire&} you
chose them. (PP)

18. (13.) Therefore thus says {&the Lord&} YHWH, Behold, my
servants shall eat, and you shall be hungry: [*]
19. behold, my servants shall drink, and you shall be
thirsty: behold, my servants shall rejoice,
20.[*] and you shall be ashamed: (14.) Behold, my servants
shall sing [m..from] in a good heart, and you
21. shall cry for sorrow of heart, and from a broken spirit
you shall howl. (15.) And you shall leave
22. your name for a oath to my chosen: for He shall cause you
to die the Lord YHWH
23. [+?continually?+] ( omission not in the Q text "and
call his servants by another name") There is a large gap
in line 23 indicating the scribe understood there was text
missing For the missing text:
see comments. (16.) And it
shall be that he who is sworn [m = blesses]
24. [ not in Q= in the earth shall bless himself in the
God of truth;] by his God and the one swearing by the earth
shall swear by the God of truth because
25. the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are
hid from my eyes. (PP)

26. (17.). because behold, I create new heavens and a new
earth: and neither
27. will the first be remembered, nor come up in your
heart.. (18.) except there will be gladness
28. and rejoicing for ever and ever in that which I create:
(PP)

29. for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her
people a joy.

Column LIII Isaiah 65:19 to 66:14

1. (Chapter 65:19) And I will rejoice in Jerusalem,
and joy in my people: and shall be no more heard in her the voice
of weeping , [+nor+] the voice of crying.
2. (20.) There shall be no more there a suckling of days
who dies, nor an old man who has not filled his days:
because
3. the youth shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner
being only a hundred years old will have been cursed. (21.) And
they shall build houses, and inhabit
4. and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit from
them. (22.) They shall not build, and another inhabit; they
shall not plant, and another
5. eat: because as are the days of a tree so will
be the days of my people, and my chosen will enjoy the full
use of the work of their hands. (23.) They shall not labor
6. in vain, nor bring forth children for trouble; because
the seed of the blessed of YHWH they are, and their offspring
with them.
7. (24.) And it shall be, that before they call, I will
answer; and while they are yet speaking, and I will hear. (25.)
The wolf
8. and the lamb shall feed as one, and the lion like the ox shall eat straw
: and dust shall be the serpent's bread. They shall not do evil
9. nor destroy in all my holy {&waw&} mountain, says YHWH.
(PP)

10. (Chapter 66:1) Thus says YHWH, The heaven is my
throne, and the {&the&} earth is the stool for my feet, where is
the house that you build to me?
11. and where is the place of my rest? (2.) and all those
things has my hand made, and all those things shall be, says
YHWH: and to
12. this will I look, to the poor and to the contrite of
spirit, and the one trembling at my word. (3.) He who kills the
{&the&} ox is [+as+] if he struck a man;
13. he who sacrifices a lamb, as one breaking a
dog's neck; one offering a gift as if he offered swine's blood;
one burning incense, as if he blessed evil. Also
14.they choose their own ways, and in their abominations
their soul desires. (4.) I also will choose
15. their whims, and [+in+] their terrors I will bring on
them; because I called, and no one answered; I spoke,
16. and they did not hear: and they did evil in my eyes, and
that which I did not desire they chose. (PP)
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17.[X] (5.). Hear the word of YHWH, you who tremble at his
word; they say, your brothers who hated you, who exclude you
18, for my name's sake: Let YHWH be glorified: but
he shall be seen in your joy, and they shall be ashamed. (PP)

19. (6.) A voice of noise from the city, a voice from the
temple, the voice of YHWH rendering recompense to his enemies.
(7.) Before she travailed,
20. she bore a child; before her pain came, she was
delivered of a male. (8.) Who has heard such as this who has
seen
21. such things? Shall the earth be made to bear in one day?
or shall a nation be born at one time because travailing she
also brought forth
22. even Zion, her children. (9.) {&Shall&} I
break water, and not cause a birth? says YHWH: shall I
cause a birth
23. and shut the womb? says your God. (PP)

24. (10.) Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all
who love her: rejoice with her for joy, all you mourning
25. for her: (11.) That you may nurse, and be satisfied
with the breasts of her comforts; that you may drain out, and be
delighted
26. with the abundance of her glory. (PP)

27. (12.) [m..because] thus says YHWH, Behold, I will spread
out to her like a river, peace, and like a flowing river the
glory of the Gentiles
28. [{and you shall n}]urse, on her side you shall be
carried, and upon her knees caressed (13.) As a man whom his
mother
29. [{comforts,}] so will I comfort you; and in Jerusalem
you shall be comforted. (14.) And when you see this, your heart
shall rejoice,

Column LIV Isaiah 66:14 to 66:24

1. (Continue 66:14) and your bones shall blossom like
grass: and the hand of YHWH shall be known to his servants, and
his indignation to his enemies. (PP)
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2. (15.). For, behold, YHWH comes with fire, and with his
chariots like a whirlwind, to return in fury his anger
3. [+ his anger,+] and his rebuke with flames of fire. (16.)
For by fire YHWH [+will bring to judgement+] [m..plead] and with
his sword
4. all flesh: and the slain shall be many. (17.) those who
sanctify themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind
one >plant
5. in the midst, eating swine's flesh, and the abomination,
and the mouse, together [m...shall be
ended,] says Y[{HW}]H. (18.) And I
6. know their works and their thoughts: The gathering is
coming of all nations and tongues; and they shall {&yod&} come,
7. and see my glory. (19.) And I will set a sign among
them, and I will send from those who escape to the Gentiles,
8. to Carthage, Pul, and Lud, Mesh[{ech)] Qeshet of Tubal,
and Greece. to the isles afar off, who have not heard of
9. my message, nor seen my glory; and they shall tell my
glory among the Gentiles. (20.) And they shall bring all
10. [+all+] your brothers {&from all&} Gentiles an offering
to YHWH upon horses, and {*in chariots,&} and wagons,
11. and upon mules, and upon dromedaries, to my holy
mountain Jerusalem, says YHWH, (PP)

12. just as the children of Israel bring a gift without
corruption to the house of YHWH. (21.) Also from them
13. I will take [m..them] [+to me+] for priests and for
Levites, says YHWH. (PP)

14. (22.) Because just as the new heavens and the new earth,
which I will make, shall stand
15. before me, says YHWH, so they shall stand your seed and
your name. (23.) And it shall come to pass, that from one new
moon to another,
16. and from one sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to
worship before me, says YHWH. (24.) And they shall go out
17. and see the carcasses of the men who have transgressed
against me: because their worm does not die, [{their fire}]
18, will not be quenched; and they shall be an abhorrence
to all flesh.